Matthias Müller

German manager; CEO of Volkswagen AG

Matthias Müller built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.

The record lists Matthias Müller as German manager; CEO of Volkswagen AG.

Matthias Müller was born at Chemnitz in 1953. His recorded nationality is Germany. He was educated at Munich University of Applied Sciences.

Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.

He worked as business executive, entrepreneur and industrialist.

His recorded affiliations include Audi AG.

Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.

That the business was built from Germany shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

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