Saturday, September 26, 2015

Children of the GDR

New VW boss, Matthias Müller was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz) in Saxony in 1953 in the former German Democratic Republic.

His family moved to Bavaria when he was still at school. After finishing school in Ingolstadt Müller started an apprenticeship as a toolmaker at Audi, which he completed in 1977.

He then went on to study computer engineering science in Munich.

So the German President, Chancellor and now the boss of the world's largest car maker are from the former German Democratic Republic.

1 comment:

Póló said...

Jacques Attali and his brother Bernard were born in Algiers. Jacques went on to become President Mitterand's chief advisor and Bernard to become Chair of Air France.

Some sort of parallel.

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