While the Volkswagen Group is planning the “transformation” into the digital age, one of the driving forces behind the restructuring of the Audi premium brand is failing.
Ingolstadt / Wolfsburg - Audi will have to do without its CEO Markus Duesmann for a long time.
The 52-year-old suffers from the long-term effects of a corona disease, says
Business Insider
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The top manager of the Ingolstadt VW subsidiary is struggling with the after-effects of his Covid-19 disease (Long Covid): As the portal explains, Duesmann had already been infected with Sars-CoV-2 around three months ago, but has since been infected been treated and been active again at Audi.
Audi and VW have to do without Duesmann - "See, he's not the old one yet"
Even at this point in time, the disease would have taken a severe course, including hospitalization.
Then the former BMW manager returned quickly to his place of work (until July 2018) and tried to fulfill his usual workload.
With “appointments, speeches and meetings”, so the report, referring to corporate groups.
The return may have been too quick.
Because now one of the leading innovation drivers at Volkswagen has to go into rehab, which is causing concern for the board of the largest European car company.
“His passion and dynamism have made a significant contribution to today's optimistic mood at Audi,” says an unnamed top manager.
Alongside Herbert Diess *, the disposable Duesmann is considered a “central figure” with regard to the transformation of the entire VW Group *.
At Audi, they “picked up the pace enormously”, the Audi executive board member announced a few months ago at the premium manufacturer's annual press conference:
Audi boss Duesmann with Long Covid: Does the VW subsidiary need a new boss?
The quoted VW manager colleague also says about the Audi boss who is missing because of Long Covid: “I can see that he is not the old Markus Duesmann yet, but above all he probably does not live up to his own claims.
He'll be missing every day. ”Is it so bad that the premium subsidiary would do well to start looking for a successor?
That is supposedly not an issue at Volkswagen *.
There are different findings about the long-term consequences of Corona, which differ depending on the course of the disease and can be both physical and psychological in nature.
However, even with a mild course, an infection can have potentially serious side effects and long-term effects *.
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