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In the Volkswagen Group, the East German locations will have a greater say in the future. For the first time, a representative of the previously independent Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH is moving to the supervisory board. The head of the works council of the Saxon subsidiary Jens Rothe, 51, was appointed by the registry court as a new member of the supervisory body. The personality is an expression of a stronger convergence of VW in East and West a good 30 years after the fall of the Wall. Sachsen GmbH, which includes the Transparent Factory in Dresden, is to become part of Volkswagen AG. The employees who have hitherto been worse off will gradually receive the company collective agreement. East Germany has also recently gained in strategic importance for VW. The factory in Zwickau was the first production sitewhich has been completely converted to e-mobility, where the ID.3 and ID.4 electric cars are being built. Saxony works council chairman Rothe has been employed by Sächsische Automobilbau, later Volkswagen Sachsen, since 1991. He succeeds Athanasios Stimoniaris on the supervisory board of the VW Group, who represented the truck subsidiary MAN there and who recently resigned.
