Karl Horst Hahn, former CEO of German automaker Volkswagen AG, has died at the age of 96. About Wrote The Bloomberg agency cites a message from a representative of the Karl Khan Charitable Foundation.
Khan passed away in his sleep on January 14 at his home in Wolfsburg, Germany. The farewell ceremony was to be held on January 24.
As the agency wrote, the Käfer (“Beetle”) car became the best-selling model in history thanks to the marketing skills of the former head of Volkswagen: more than 21.5 million copies were produced from 1945 to 2003.
Khan’s career at Volkswagen began in 1959. He became the head of the American branch. He was elected to Volkswagen’s board of directors in 1964 and moved to the concern’s headquarters in Germany. There he headed the sales department and then left the post in 1973. In 1982, he was appointed CEO of this German company. Until his resignation in 1993, Khan succeeded in making Volkswagen the No. 1 automaker in Europe.
March 3 Volkswagen accepted The decision to stop the production of cars in Russia and the supply of cars to the country. This week, Alexander Pakhomov, Chairman of the Board of the Russian Automobile Service Association, knowledgeableThat the German concern has limited access to service stations and official dealers to service programs in Russia.
Source: Gazeta
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