Audi’s ontwikkelingschef leave the group after 30 years #dieselgate

Posted on 04-12-2015 at 8:38 by sir_smokalot – 26 Comments”

For the insiders it was Ulrich Hackenberg, a big name within the VAG group, but by dieselgate he fell of his pedestal. The suspended veteran then his stuff, and does not return no more.

In the dieselgate scandal should heads roll, and not only of onderknuppels, because the public (and shareholders) has a clear signal is needed that VW the affair seriously. The supreme boss (and ultimately responsible for everything within the group) Martin Winterkorn, left quickly, but now it also keeps the already suspended Ulrich Hackenberg, the for seen. Go there, but that, internally, a lot of pressure on him is to be exercised in order not to return.

On the question of the extent to which the ontwikkelingschef aware of sjoemelsoftware we will never get an answer, I suspect – given the considerable length of time (thick 2 months) that between the outbreak of the scandal and his departure – Hackenberg, own long guns, but that the new top him with gentle compulsion for the lions and has thrown. To the outside world will be leaving probably as “new insights” to be sold.

Symbolic

Hackenberg, reached last may by the age of 65 years, and so his exit mostly symbolic. Yet it is not the way in which you finally, after a long and successful employment, to leave, with the head down via the back door. Probably will be compensation a lot easier to digest.

The us up until now unknown, Stefan Knirsch will perform the duties of Hackenberg over it. He is now motorenchef at Audi, and was in the period that there is cheating in Porsche work, and is therefore not infected. His appointment is very remarkable, because Audi earlier this year, a press statement the door did, in which it was reported that Knirsch at his own request, when the group would leave.

Photo: Ulrich Hackenberg, during the 24 hours of Le Mans this year.