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360°Wolfsburg ALL ABOUT VOLKSWAGEN – THE EMPLOYEE MAGAZINE FOR OUR LOCATION | JULY 2020 360WOLFSBURG° Employees Try Out the ID.3¹ Putting the ID.3 through its paces: Selected employees at Volkswagen Saxony now get the opportunity. 150 vehicles have been reserved for long-term testing over several weeks under everyday conditions. Volkswagen hopes to obtain valu- able data on the usage and driving behavior of the ID.3. The employ- ees are looking forward to the experience. What they like most about the car: → PAGE 3 Proud: Wolfsburg employees Manuela Lazik, Daniel Kühnemund (center), and Andreas Kosub with a new Tiguan. Team Working on New Factory World Premiere at Volkswagen: Planning work on the new battery factory at the Salzgitter plant is in full swing. A team has been formed Introducing the New Tiguan in Braunschweig to take the reins on the mega-project. → PAGE 4 Wolfsburg plant employees have been manufacturing the SUV for years now – and they’re excited about the product upgrade orld premiere: Volkswagen in the future. And, for the first time, the end of last year. Employees are larly fond of the Tiguan with plug-in Variant Coming has presented its in-depth the SUV will be taking off as an inde- already excited about the new prod- hybrid drive – Manuela Lazik also 1 to Wolfsburg W update for the Tiguan. pendent Tiguan R . ucts from their plant, among them thinks it’s a real eye-catcher. She says, The product upgrade is electrified, The Tiguan is a true Wolfsburger. Manuela Lazik from door pre-as- “I drive a Skoda at the moment. But I digitalized, and networked. As if that It’s been produced at the plant since sembly, Daniel Kühnemund (engine can definitely see myself driving the The Golf weren’t enough: The new Tiguan will 2007, with around 2.8 million units pre-wiring), and Andreas Kosub from Tiguan PHEV. It’s a fantastic model!” family is also be available as a plug-in hybrid1 rolling off the assembly line as of the start-up team. They’re particu- → PAGE 20 now com- plete: The new Golf Variant will be built ex- clusively at Brandstätter Heads Corona Crisis: the Wolfs- burg plant in the future. Production Core Brand Employees Lend a Hand begins in September. → PAGE 17 Letter to the team – thank you to Herbert Diess Volunteer engagement and major fundraising campaign Cancelled Euros and the alf Brandstätter is the new native described the cohesion in are and Volkswagen has Chairman of the Executive the team as a special factor for suc- compas- supported this Consequences RBoard for the Volkswagen cess: “The team spirit carries us. Csion: The commitment brand. The former COO of the That has always been Volkswagen’s Volkswagen with a release The European Soccer Champion- core brand took over the office strength.” Brandstätter thanked team have model. Over ship has been postponed due to from Group CEO Herbert Diess Group CEO Herbert Diess for his demonstrated a double the coronavirus – what Volkswagen on July 1. The contribution to the transformation that they have that page, the Sales Director Jürgen Stackmann has Volkswagen of the Volkswagen brand. “Over the in spades. Many em- 360° editors to say on the subject. → PAGE 24 Group Chair- last four years, Herbert Diess has ployees volunteered to tell some of man had driven forward the realignment support those in need during the peak the stories of previously been of the brand of the coronavirus crisis. Whether Volkswagen’s COVID heroes responsible for with courage, as doctors or coordinators for local (→ PAGES 8 and 9). And as if that were both functions. enterprise, and authority emergency services, or as not enough: To alleviate further suf- Brandstätter vision.” nurses in fering, a major fundraising campaign addressed Brandstätter retire- is currently underway in cooper- Volkswagen began at the ment ation with staff in a letter company with homes: the children’s as he took of- an apprentice- charity “terre Ralf Brandstätter, Volkswagen Brand fice. He assured ship as a shop des hommes” CEO them, “As the fitter in the (→ PAGE 5). one who now Braunschweig Group Chief An Interview with holds over- plant. After Human Re- Herbert Diess, Hiltrud Werner all responsibility for the brand, I CEO of the his subsequent sources Officer can assure you that we are on the Volkswagen Group studies, he Gunnar Kilian “Ethics and compliance carry right track. We will overcome the returned to the reveals why equal weight to our economic challenges of the coronavirus cri- company. In he’s proud of goals” – Hiltrud Werner, Member sis. We will master the transforma- 2018, he was appointed to manage- employees’ engagement in a major of the Board for Integrity and Legal tion. Volkswagen will come out of ment of the operational business. interview with the 360° editorial team Affairs, in a major 360° interview. this stronger.” The Braunschweig → PAGE 2 (→ PAGE 7). → PAGE 15 kp-wo ¹ Tiguan eHybrid, Tiguan R, and ID.3: Near-production-ready concept cars GROUP 360° July 2020 Brand: Brandstätter Takes Over from Diess Former Chief Operating Officer now leading ­­Volkswagen as Chairman of the Board – Group CEO continues with overall responsibility he ­­Volkswagen Group is reor- company’s most experienced man- on the TRANSFORM2025+ strategy, ganizing the responsibilities agers. In the past two years, he’s the brand is evolving into a leading Tof the brand’s and Group’s already successfully led ­­Volkswagen supplier for carbon-neutral mobil- leadership. Starting July 1, the core as COO and played a crucial role ity and is on its way to becoming a brand of Volkswagen­­ Passenger Cars in shaping the transformation of digital tech company. I would like to will be led by former brand COO the brand,” says Chairman of the thank the entire ­­Volkswagen team Ralf Brandstätter. Volkswagen Board of the ­­Volkswagen Group, for their incredible work. Together, Group Chairman of the Dr. Herbert Diess. “I am we will resolutely continue on our Board Herbert Diess, therefore happy to say path,” says Ralf Brandstätter. who was previ- that, after his profound ously responsible strategic decisions of for both func- the recent years, Mr. tions, will thus Brandstätter will now i be given more remain a powerful breathing room driving force behind Personal Details for his tasks as the brand’s develop- Ralf Brandstätter was born Group CEO. He ment as CEO.” on September 8, 1968 in will retain over- After a record year Braunschweig, Germany. After all responsibility in in 2019, the brand is his apprenticeship as a shop fitter the Group Executive ideally positioned for at ­­Volkswagen in Braunschweig, Board for Volkswagen Herbert Diess, the future. Volkswagen he earned a degree in Industrial Passenger Cars as well Chairman of the Board of has successfully com- Engineering and came to work at the Volkswagen Group as the Volume brand pleted the first phase of the ­­Volkswagen Group in 1993. In group. The aim is to its TRANSFORM2025+ December 2015, Brandstätter was focus more strongly on the respec- strategy. The company has now named Chief Procurement Officer tive tasks at the top of the Group begun the next phase. The large- for the ­­Volkswagen brand. He’s and brand in the ongoing trans- scale e-offensive is starting to worked as Chief Operating Officer formation phase of the automotive become visible on the road with (COO) for ­­Volkswagen Passenger industry. new vehicles. “For ­­Volkswagen, the Cars since August 1, 2018. “Ralf Brandstätter is one of the course into the future is set. Based Heading up the ­­Volkswagen brand: New Chairman of the Board Ralf Brandstätter. Controversial Promotional Video: The New Offering: Raising Steps the Company Is Taking Environmental Awareness Group Internal Audit called in – data evaluated – apology from Executive Board Basic qualification now bookable as web-based training he company has decided on the values nized that we have to be even more he newly introduced Environ- area with computer access via Tconsequences reacting to the Volkswagen sensitive in questioning whether Tmental Compliance System GroupLearn under the seminar ID rightly criticized online ad video stands for,” content can potentially discrim- (Umwelt-Compliance-Management- 52003829, and can be booked inde- for the Golf 8. Actions have been explains Hil- inate against, hurt, or disturb system, UCMS) by ­­Volkswagen AG pendently. Successful participation taken to ensure inappropriate con- trud D. Wer- people,” says Jürgen Stackmann, requires that all employees undergo in the WBT is automatically recorded tent is not produced or published in ner, Head of Member of the Board for Sales, comprehensive qualification and in the GroupLearn learning history. the future. Integrity and Marketing, and After Sales at training in order to assume the envi- This qualification measure serves Legal Affairs. Volkswagen Passenger Cars. ronmental responsibility associated as an instrument for teaching the The actions in detail: As part of Jochen Sengpiehl, Chief Market- with their position and to meet com- basics of environmental protection. 1. Process improvement by estab- its investi- ing Officer, confirms: “The crucial pliance obligations. At the same time, it also enables lishing a fixed approval check- gation, the point is: we didn’t recognize the Employees’ attention is to be managers to fulfill their duty to point on our side and on the Group In- racist elements in this video. I drawn to environmental issues and inform and train their employees on agency side. For this purpose, ternal Audit apologize their environmental awareness environmentally relevant principles Hiltrud D. Werner, Mem- an independent board will be ber of the Volkswagen evaluated for this sharpened. in a uniform, transparent way. formed with diversity experts AG Executive Board, roughly 400 mistake, on For this purpose, a web-based In addition, ­­Volkswagen AG’s who, while having nothing to do “Integrity and Legal files of more behalf of training course (WBT) by the name Environment page in the Group Wiki with the creative process, will Affairs” than 16.5 GB the team as of “Environmental Basic Qualifi- provides a downloadable document instead check and filter creative in size and well.
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