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Hahn is considered to be one of the fathers of the Golf generation as well as of a successful multi-brand strategy. The takeovers of SEAT (1986) and Škoda (1991) took place during his tenure. Hahn’s strategic decisions laid the groundwork for the Volkswagen Group’s rise as a global player. New production sites in China, Spain, Portugal and – following the fall of the Iron Curtain – in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, which arose in the wake of his globalization policy, established the foundation for the Volkswagen Group becoming what it is today – one of the world’s largest car manufacturers. At the end of 1992, Hahn turned over his job as the head of the Group to former Audi CEO Ferdinand Piëch (* April 17, 1937: † August 25, 2019) and switched to the Group’s supervisory board, of which he was a member until June 1997. You can read more about the life of Carl H. Hahn in his biography Meine Jahre mit Volkswagen [My Years with Volkswagen] (2005) and at www.hahn-carl.de
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