The Volkswagen brand employs some 200,000 people worldwide, with some 120,000 of them located in Germany. The brand stands for diversity, fairness, tolerance and equal opportunity, because that is the foundation for innovative strength, creativity and performance. With some 5,000 vocational trainees, Volkswagen is also very active in supporting young talent. The company offers its employees excellent career prospects in Germany and abroad and is deeply committed to its social responsibility as a good and reliable employer all over the world.
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New Tiguan generation: Volkswagen’s bestseller celebrates world premiere in front of 10,000 employees
Even before the official media unveiling, Volkswagen this morning presented the new Tiguan to some 10,000 employees at the works meeting in and around Hall 11 at the Wolfsburg plant. The Tiguan is one of the most successful Volkswagen models of the present day and is therefore of particular importance to the company: Since it went on sale in 2007, 7.6 million units have been produced – almost one million of them in the past two years. Since 2018, the Tiguan has been the bestselling model of not only Volkswagen Passenger Cars but also the Volkswagen Group. The new, third generation of the bestselling SUV will roll off the assembly line in Wolfsburg from fall 2023 and come onto the market in the first quarter of 2024. With its familiar compact dimensions, the Tiguan combines progressive technologies with charismatic design. -
Health.Care.Run.: Volkswagen employees around the world to run for a good cause
Volkswagen is organizing its first “International Health.Care.Run.” this year, with employees from a total of 21 locations in 11 countries around the world taking part. The initiative is more about supporting a good cause than having a good time, for the proceeds will go to charity. -
New head of Quality Assurance at Volkswagen Passenger Cars
Effective as of May 1, 2023, Elvira Tölkes will take over as head of Quality Assurance at Volkswagen Passenger Cars. In this function, she will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer of Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Thomas Schäfer. Tölkes has more than 30 years of experience in product development, production and quality assurance in the automotive sector. She is coming from AUDI, where she was recently responsible for an interdisciplinary digital transformation project in procurement and IT. Her predecessor, Christiane Engel, will take up the post of Spokesperson of the Management Board and Managing Director of the Technology Division of Volkswagen Osnabrück.
