大衆兩大家族權斗升級
The power struggle at Volkswagen escalated over the weekend, as a rift emerged between the Porsche and Piëch families that control the carmaker and its chief executive signalled he does not intend to surrender his position.
大衆(Volkswagen)權力鬥爭上週末升級，控制大衆的保時捷(Porsche)與皮耶希(Porsche-Piëch)兩家族之間出現分歧，同時大衆首席執行官暗示他不打算辭職。
A full-blown leadership crisis was triggered on Friday, when VW’s chairman and patriarch Ferdinand Piëch revealed that his working relationship with long-serving chief executive Martin Winterkorn, was strained.
上週五，大衆出現全面領導層危機，當時大衆董事長費迪南多•皮耶希(Ferdinand Piëch)透露，他與長期任職的首席執行官馬丁•溫特科恩(Martin Winterkorn)工作關係緊張。Mr Piëch’s goal in speaking out remains unclear. But in one sentence in an interview — “I am at a distance to Winterkorn” — he appeared to undermine Mr Winterkorn, casting doubt on his top lieutenant’s future and obliging key shareholders and employee representatives to pick sides.
目前尚不清楚皮耶希這番坦率直言的目的。他在一次採訪中談到，“我與溫特科恩有距離”，言外之意似乎是要削弱溫特科恩的力量，這讓人們對他這位最高副手的未來產生疑問，同時迫使主要股東以及員工代表選擇站邊。
Wolfgang Porsche, chairman of the Porsche SE holding company that controls a 50.7 per cent voting stake in VW, said on Sunday that Mr Piëch’s statements “represent his personal opinion, whose content and substance was not agreed with the family”.
控制着大衆50.7%投票權的保時捷控股公司(Porsche SE)董事長沃爾夫岡•保時捷(Wolfgang Porsche)上週日表示，皮耶希的言論“代表他個人的觀點，其言論的內容和主旨並沒有得到家族的同意”。Mr Porsche, and Mr Piëch are cousins and grandsons of Porsche’s founder. They are also the two most powerful members of the VW supervisory board. Mr Porsche’s statement left the VW chairman looking unusually isolated and without sufficient votes to force out Mr Winterkorn, if he so desired.
保時捷和皮耶希是表兄弟，是保時捷創始人的孫子和外孫。他們也是大衆監事會最有影響力的兩名成員。沃爾夫岡•保時捷的言論令大衆董事長看似處於不同尋常的被孤立狀態，而且，假如他希望迫使溫特科恩下臺的話，是得不到足夠的支持的。VW’s CEO has also received expressions of support from Bernd Osterloh, VW’s chief labour representative, and the state of Lower Saxony. Employee representatives control half the seats on the 20-member supervisory board which decides executive appointments. Lower Saxony has two seats, the Piëchs hold three seats and the Porsches have two.
首席執行官溫特科恩還得到了大衆主要員工代表伯納德•奧斯特洛(Bernd Osterloh)和德國下薩克森州(Lower Saxony)的支持。員工代表控制着由20人組成的監事會的半數席位，監事會決定行政任命。下薩克森州擁有兩個席位，皮耶希家族擁有3個席位，保時捷家族擁有兩個席位。Olaf Liess, Lower Saxony economy minister, told the tabloid Bild am Sonntag that he was “very calm about Mr Piëch’s announcement because of the majority situation on the supervisory board.”
下薩克森州經濟部長奧拉夫•利斯(Olaf Liess)告訴德國小報《Bild am Sonntag》，“鑑於監事會大多數成員的立場”，他“對皮耶希的言論感到非常平靜”。A VW spokesman and an official at Mr Piëch’s office in Austria both declined to comment.
大衆發言人以及位於奧地利的皮耶希辦公室高管均拒絕置評。
