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A Markus Duesmann comes to a meeting with BMW Supervisory Board Chairman Norbert Reithofer on Monday, only he knows that this meeting will end quite differently than expected. The purchase committee's contract runs until the end of September 2019, a good year before you talk about a possible extension.
BMW would have liked to give a new contract to the 49-year-old man for five years – but Duesmann does not want to. For "personal reasons" he waives an extension, it is said in the evening.
Behind the personal reasons lies a career move for Duesmann: It should change as soon as possible to Volkswagen's board of directors. Although it is pointed out in Wolfsburg, the responsibility of the department has not yet decided, but if everything goes as planned, the BMW man should stay in the south of the Republic and become the new Audi boss. The position has been temporarily occupied with Bram Schot since the imprisonment of former CEO Rupert Stadler.
However, we still do not know how long Schot should keep Duesmann free. For the former BMW Purchasing Manager has as usual in the industry a clause of competition in his contract, which forbids him to move after the end of his contract directly to a competitor.
Poker between VW and BMW
Although Duesmann has immediate leave after the conversation with Reithofer BMW, his contract is based, however, according to WELT information only. Thus, the barrier of competition would begin only at the end of the contract on September 31, 2019 and last one year. In the worst case for Volkswagen Duesmann could therefore take his new post until the end of 2020.
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Therefore, now the poker between VW and BMW, because of course, the Munich on the respect of the contract period and the ban on the competition also give up, but that would have the Wolfsburg taste something. Probably also to push the price, it is now at Volkswagen that one could imagine completely different positions for Duesmann. Finally, one must expect that it will be available in two years time. In any case, it would be secondary, when the change takes place. It is important that they have obtained the services of Duesmann.
In BMW circles, however, it is more likely that Volkswagen boss Herbert Diess wants to push his new Audi CEO back as quickly as possible. In fact, more is talking about the prospect of Munich, because Diess must show that it can impress Volkswagen on a short term, a new, its own stamp.
After the businessman is a technician
He refers to a BMW man at the Audi Tips, seems consistent, because even that came three years ago from Munich to VW. Duesmann is also considered a specialist in engine development. After the shopkeeper Stadler brings a technician back to the Audi high again.
Duesmann had headed the driving dynamics department and drove at BMW before his time on the board, from 2007 to 2010 he was for the Munich Formula 1 team works. There, he had changed from the Mercedes competition team, before leading the development of diesel engines at DaimlerChrysler.
