3.4.2019. Volker Germann is the new plant Manager of Audi Brussels. At the Belgian site of the Audi e-tron is made, the first all-electric SUV in the history of Audi.
Germann follows in his new Position, Patrick Danau. This comes after more than 40 years of activity for the Volkswagen group in the rest. In the Board of management of Audi Brussels Volker Germann takes over the duties as General Director of technology and logistics and as spokesperson of the management Board.
“With Volker Germann is a designated production professional comes with a lot of international experience at the Brussels location. We are pleased that we could win him for this task,“ says Peter Kössler, Chairman of the Board of Audi Brussels and the Board of management for production and logistics at AUDI AG.
“Patrick Danau, we thank for his many years of tireless commitment to the Belgian site. He has driven the conversion of the plant to the site for electro-mobility with great personal commitment and much more.“
For many years, Germann is successful for the Volkswagen group, and Audi. The engineer completed his studies at the technical school in Mannheim, Germany, and began in 1986 his career as a clerk in the Central planning of lacquer and Assembly at VW. In 2009, he was plant Manager at VW do Brasil at the site in Curitiba.
In 2016, Volker Germann, plant Manager of the joint venture FAW-Volkswagen in Changchun, China. In the approximately seven million inhabitants of the city count the number of model series, the Audi A4 L, Audi A6 L, Audi A6 L e-tron, Audi Q3 and Audi Q5. l. for the Chinese market
Now Germann is looking forward to the new professional challenge in the European capital: “The work of Brussels braces is currently one of the most important attempts at Audi. Under the leadership of Patrick Danau has prepared the factory optimally on this task. I am happy to welcome the dawning of the age of E-mobility and the production of vehicles with a completely new drive technology in shaping the future. Now I’m part of the team that brings the Audi e-tron with a lot of passion and Can be on the road.“
Germanns predecessor, Patrick Danau had designed the plant in Brussels, together with his team in the last three years, the production of Audi e-tron and out of the factory in the heart of Europe, a tail Assembly for electro-mobility. The graduate engineer is familiar with the work of Brussels since 1978. At the time, he began his career in the Assembly of the former VW plant in Brussels.
According to numerous foreign stations in group companies Danau 2014 found the way back to Brussels where he worked in the last five years as General Director of production technology and logistics and spokesperson of the management Board. “For me, closes the circle: there, where more than 40 years ago professionally, everything for me has started, I finish my career. A better end than the production of the Audi e-tron, I could not have imagined at the end of career.“
Volker Germann
General Director of production technology and logistics and spokesperson of the Board of management, AUDI BRUSSELS S. A./N. V. (photo: AUDI AG)
