The former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) exercises after the death of Ferdinand Piëch criticism of the Supervisory Board of the Volkswagen Group. This had pushed Piëch 2015 in power struggle with the former VW CEO Martin Winterkorn to resign as VW supervisory board chairman.
"That was wrong, what happened there," Schröder told the SPIEGEL. "One would have to say: There is a conflict between the chairman of the board and the boss of the group." There must be the employed boss of the group. "Piëch did not deserve such a farewell because he had always thought about the future of the company."
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Ferdinand Piëch is dead: a life on four wheelsAmong the critics Piëchs then counted the Lower Saxony Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD), who sits today for Lower Saxony in the VW Supervisory Board.
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