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Rupert Stadler must remain in detention. The Audi chief on leave suffers under conditions in prison. What he gets for lunch and where he could work.

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Holger Sabinsky-Wolf

Business leaders at the head of auto companies always have a small flaw that they lack the gas in their blood. Employees then tell managers that they have no idea of ​​car manufacturing. Audi CEO, Rupert Stadler, is a business economist. It now has the opportunity to iron out any practical shortcomings.

Because the Augsburg-Gablingen prison, in which Stadler is detained because of the exhaust gas business, has a car workshop with elevator with all the trims. In addition to the repair and preparation of cars, there are also TÜV exams and special shows. The director of the automobile, 55, would have time to do an internship. Contrary to initial speculation, he is still not released on bail after three weeks.

The CEO of Audi Stadler is under psychological care

The psychological burden of the boss of Audi is huge. His generous office and his villa he exchanged for a cell of ten square meters. Instead of managers, he now meets murder suspects. Only a few days ago, a 32-year-old man came to the prison, who tried to kill his father by sleeping with a crowbar. Recently, the brothel operator Prinz Marcus von Anhalt, the former SPD deputy Linus Förster and the double murderer of Hirblingen were sitting in Gablingen

According to our newspaper information, Stadler is under psychological supervision at Augsburg Prison. His wife and three children can visit him for half an hour at most four times a month. The top manager does not wear thin thread, but blue prison clothes. Instead of expensive business lunches, there is now Pichelsteiner stew. And today at noon Chile con Carne. On request, there is also meatless food, the prisoners are likely to have food, but they abstain most often. Just like Stadler. He behaves discreetly and tries to deal with this strange world in one way or another.

Monday, June 18th. Rupert Stadler is sitting at home in his villa in the western district of Ingolstadt on packaged suitcases. Noon is the meeting of the VW Supervisory Board in Wolfsburg. But the Audi boss can not start the business trip. Police investigators and prosecutor Munich II are driving. They search the private house and take Stadler with them. In the diesel business, he is accused of fraud and "false indirect certification". He should also have known in Europe after the discovery of manipulations in the United States of erroneous emission values, but unlike the United States ordered a stop sale for Audi vehicles. The fact that he was arrested is mainly due to a suspicious phone call that the investigators listened to. Stadler reportedly spoke of lawsuits against witnesses and hiring an Audi employee who testified in the case. Danger of power failure, call the prosecutors.

Stadler has been questioned several times in the diesel business

Since then, Rupert Stadler has been repeatedly heard in prison by the prosecutor. His defender Thilo Pfordte was still there. Stadler apparently continues to deny being involved in the exhaust gas business. In any case, the lawyer and the boss of Audi have so far failed to dispel the suspicion. Pfordte has not yet filed a criminal complaint. More queries are scheduled for this week. This confirms the press secretary of the Munich II prosecutor, Andrea Mayer, information from our newspaper. A review of the detention prescribed by law will only take place after six months. Rupert Stadler must adapt to a longer prison stay

Concretely, it means living in a cell of ten square meters with a bed, a chair, a table and a cupboard. The toilet cabin is separate. In older prisons, only a curtain hangs around the toilet bowl. Gablingen is the most modern prison in Bavaria. Occupants can only shower in common areas. No matter who can rent or buy a TV, he must pay the cable and electricity costs himself. Newspapers and magazines can be delivered. Mobile phones, laptops and the Internet are banned, says Deputy Director Stefan Loh. Exceptions: if inmates want to inspect their investigation records or write a letter of request.

Audi also talks about the diesel scandal in our podcast "Bayern-Versteher". Here you can listen:

The daily routine is strictly rhythmic: wake up from 6:30 am, then breakfast. Then, prisoners can play sports or volunteer for work. Prisoners have a duty to work and defendants must not work. Lunch is already served from 11 am. Then he is back to work or to the cell. Everyone is allowed out of the yard every day for an hour. From 4.30 pm the clock is "information": Inmates are allowed to meet, chat, play games. Or for guitar lessons. At 20:30 at the latest, there is "inclusion": everyone must be in his cells. Uli Hoeneß was only in the infirmary of the Landsberg Correctional Facility

"There is no special treatment for prominent detainees," says Stefan Loh, deputy head of the prison. Only if the security of "celebrity" is in danger, then officials take protective measures. FC Bayern President Uli Hoeneß, who was in the JVA Landsberg for tax evasion, saw virtually no normal cell during his stay. He stayed at the infirmary, where it was better to watch. Later, it appeared that there were blackmail attempts. This is not yet known in the case of Rupert Stadler. The head of Audi on call is simply one of about 550 inmates.

If the prominent prisoner wanted to work, he would have several options: laundry, kitchen, building cleaning, garden maintenance, library. Or just in one of the internal operations of the JVA Augsburg-Gablingen: construction, painting, hairdressing. But: A director of the car that cuts hair?

Hard to imagine. Since a job in the auto repair shop would make more sense. Many prisons in Bavaria have an auto repair shop. In principle, anyone can bring their car to the TÜV or repair it – provided they do not worry about the special conditions.

But even if Rupert Stadler wanted to work in the prison workshop, the use of two factors depends, Stefan Loh explains: There must be a place in the first place. Convicted prisoners are preferred to prisoners. And the prisoner must be fit to work. To find out, the master of the prison workshop submits the detainee to a thorough examination. And he finally decides what's going on. Loh says: "An academician with two left hands finally brings us nothing in the auto repair shop."

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