It was definitely a power struggle, but Hitzelsperger’s candidacy wasn’t well received, so he withdrew and that’s the main reason why he’s no longer there. You certainly can’t blame Vogt for that, especially since the members elected or re-elected him as president. If Hitzelsperger had seen a chance of winning the election, he would hardly have withdrawn. And if you no longer want Vogt in this position, then as far as I know you have the chance to vote him out in 2025.
As long as he could have remained chairman of the supervisory board, but the whole thing seems pretty bizarre. Because the members were not asked to remove him, it seems as if this was done primarily at the request of the investors. You can stand by Vogt as much as you want, but on principle alone it can’t work that way. To be honest, I don’t understand it either. What does Porsche or the other members of the supervisory board expect from this?
So Vogt is actually given campaign help because he stands for one issue and the others obviously don’t, he has now made that more than clear. The way it happened can hardly be popular, unless you have completely thrown overboard your investor skepticism from a few weeks ago. But who knows, maybe it really is the case that some people believe that as long as the investors are on our side, then everything is fine…