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Armin DiezVDA - Verband der Automobilindustrie

Organisational Chart

General meeting
Automobiles and respective engines
(Manufacturer group I)
Trailers, Bodies and Containers
(Manufacturer group II)
Parts and accessories
(Manufacturer group III)
Press
Eckehart Rotter Tel.: -120
  • Press automotive and politics, traffic education, media monitoring
Alexander von Gersdorff Tel.: -122

Sandra Courant Tel.: -124

Peter Mair Tel.: -125
VDA branch office Japan
Dr. Jochen Legewie Tel.: +81 351 5601-85Fax: -88

Executive committee / Management board
President
Matthias Wissmann
Matthias Wissmann
Tel.: +49 30 897842-110
Fax: +49 30 897842-
601
  1. Strategy and overall VDA coordination
  2. National and international association representation
  3. Cooperation with leading national and international associations
  4. Press and communication
Communication
Dirk Evenson Tel.: -130
  • Strategic communication, PR, corporate design, IAA communication, association activities, Internet
Angelika Ohse

Tel.: -132
Sabine Steinhoff

Tel.: -133
Jürgen Mindel Tel.: -101
Fax: -601
  • Head of the Office of the President and coordination
Business unit A
Hans-Georg Frischkorn
  Hans-Georg Frischkorn – Managing Director
Tel.: -105
Fax: -602
Support of manufacturer groups (HG) with regards to the following aspects:
  • Technology, safety, environment protection, energy, labour safety, hazardous materials, research standardisation, quality management, logistics
Leading competence of VDA‘s involvement in:
  • DIN, CEN, ISO, DVR, DVW, TÜV, Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft, VDI, ODETTE
  • Vintage vehicles
 
Technology

Hans-Thomas Ebner Tel.: -280
  • Vehicle safety, emissions/energy, technology, safety and environment committee (ATSU), E Manager HG III committee, materials committee, technical congress, junior staff development, technical support
Heiner Hunold Tel.: -284
  • Utility vehicle technology (goods and passenger transport), active safety, driver assistance systems
Dr. Sascha Pfeifer Tel.: -286
  • Passive safety, SIM-TD, visibility and operation safety
Dr. Jakob Seiler Tel.: -285
  • Exhaust gas emissions, electro-mobility, noise emissions, energy, utilities/CO2
Marko Gustke Tel.: -287
  • Materials, ingredients, materials day (organisation), electrotechnology in plant engineering
Uwe Toppel Tel.: -288
  • Type approval procedure, theft protection, lighting technology
 
Logistics

Sascha Gröbel Tel.: -223
  • Container standardisation, RFID, Working Group PLM, Working Group Wheel Pallets
  • Logistics events
Werner Mock Tel.: -222
  • Logistics,
  • Logistics processes, invoicing processes, Odette, advisory council UPIK,
  • Co-operation:
    AWV, BVL CEN, DIN, DSLV, ENX, Fraunhofer, logistics service providers, universities
Jörg Walther Tel.: -224
  • EDI and ebusiness, invoicing processes,
  • working group KIT, working group
    E 12-Automotive,
  • ITA – automotive service partner
  • electronic business transactions
 
Environment policy and technical environment protection

Dr. Stefan Wöhrl Tel.: -300
  • General environment policy, production-related environment and energy issues, product-related environment issues, labour protection, hazardous materials, recycling, fire protection, industrial engineering
 
Research Association for Automotive Technology (FAT)

Dr. Friedrich Preißer Tel.: -310
  • Joint pre-competition research and development:
    Active and passive safety, environment and production technologies, transport efficiency, electronics, development methods
 
Standardisation institution of the VDA and the DIN deutsches Institut für Normung e. V.

Egbert Fritzsche Tel.: -320
  1. National (DIN), European (CEN) and international (ISO) standardisation for the automotive technology, traffic telematics, freight containers/swap containers professional specialist fields
  2. Representation of German standardisation interest in the ISO and CEN specialist gremiums
  3. Leading support of selected specialist gremiums of the ISO and CEN
Philipp Niermann Tel.: -322

Eric WernTel.: -323
 
Quality management centre (QMC)

Heinz-Günter Plegnière Tel.: -230
  • Director
Cosmina Baican Tel.: -231
  • VDA-QMC event management
Reinhard Hagen Tel.: -250
  • Head of vocational and further education
Norbert Haß Tel.: -240
  • Head of VDA-QMC specialist department, IATF oversight
Teresa Müller-Ott Tel.: -252
  • Sales
Manfred Müller Tel.: -241
  • QMC specialist department
Anne SczukaTel.: -251
  • Inhouse training
Helmut Stein
(QMC Beijing office)
Tel.: +86 10 659000-59

Wadim Gasmann
(QMC Moscow office)
Tel.: ++7 495 36343-53
 
Classic cars

Stefan Röhrig Tel.: -380
  • Support of traditional areas, manufacturers and suppliers, cooperation with associations regarding tradition and vintage vehicles
Business unit B
Klaus Bräunig
Klaus Bräunig – Managing Director
Tel.: -103
Fax:
-602
Support of manufacturer groups (HG) with regards to the following aspects and support of the HG III advisory board:
  • Fundamental questions
  • Automotive supply industry, medium-sized businesses and aftermarket
  • Exhibitions
  • Taxes and customs duties, law and insurance
Responsibility for:
  • CLEPA, OICA, BDI, DAT
  • HR and finance
 
Automotive supply industry and medium-sized businesses

Helmut Weirich Tel.: -400
  • Professional issues of manufacturer group III, VDA medium-sized business sector, cooperation with domestic and foreign supplier associations and institutions, specific aspects of the automotive supply industry
Jens Geißmann Tel.: -402
  • VDA manufacturer index ("VDA key”), VDA cooperation portal, specific questions concerning the automotive industry
 
Aftermarket

Thorsten Schneider Tel.: -410
  • Aftermarket business issues, suppliers‘ trade business, coordination and representation of specific aftermarket needs, cooperation with national and international associations
 
Exhibitions

Gabriele Zimmermann Tel.: -200
  • International Automobile Fair (IAA), International Exhibition Committee (OICA), other exhibition issues
Michael Knab Tel.: -204
  • Booth planning and allocation, booth construction regulations, review and approval of booth designs, booth assembly and disassembly
Katja Schüngel Tel.: -202
  • Exhibitor service
Viola Stockinger Tel.: -203
  • Booth planning and allocation, booth construction regulations, review and approval of booth designs, booth assembly and disassembly
Heike Walter Tel.: -205
  • IAA-Organisation
 
Hans-Joachim Vanscheidt Tel.: -270
  • Tax policy and tax-based legal issues of the automotive industry, road traffic taxation, driver taxation, EU taxes, "finance and taxes” institute, customs duties
 
Law and insurances

Dr. Ralf Scheibach Tel.: -260
  • Law, financial services, customer support issues, distribution affairs, DAT, DKF, DVS, FIW, organisation and member management
Nicola von Holleben Tel.: -262
  • Law, industrial property rights, Public procurement, Data protection, insurance issues, Internal legal issues
 
HR, finance, central services

Markus Kubitza Tel.: -160

 
Margret Wunderlich Tel.: -161
  • Contribution management – member companies, Reporting – International Automobile Fair (IAA)
Julia Borm Tel.: -162
  • Other accounts payable and receivables, wages/salaries
Carolin HojaTel.:- 163
  • Accounting/controlling QMC/ HR processing
Ingrid BeckerTel.:- 173
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Business unit C
Dr. Kay Lindemann
Dr. Kay Lindemann – Deputy Managing Director
Tel.: -107
Fax:
-603
Support of manufacturer groups (HG) with regards to the following aspects and support of the HG II advisory board:
  • Economic policy, markets, climate
  • Utility vehicles, transport policy,
  • European policy, Brussels office
  • Inhouse communication
Responsible for:
  • ACEA, IRU, CLCCR, Pro Mobilität
 
Commercial Vehicles, Trailers, Bodies and Buses

Dirk Höke Tel.: -370

Michael Wodke Tel.: -371
 
Economic and climate protection policy

Dr. Martin Koers Tel.: -350
  • Economic policy, trade policy, market-political and environment-economical issues
Angela Mans
Tel.: -352
Head of Foreign Economics
  • International economic cycle monitoring, structural analyses
 
Statistics, analyses, forecasts

Marius Baader Tel.: -330
  • National and international economic and automotive statistics, automotive and emission forecasts, automotive business cycle, international industry analyses
Alexander Fritz Tel.: -333
  • Production and export statistics, structural analyses
Ilka Ehreke Tel.: -332
  • Domestic automotive business cycle, automotive forecasts, raw material issues
Jasmin Schaper Tel.: -334
  • Foreign statistics and analyses
Petra Müller Tel.: -335
  • Domestic statistics
Thomas Schumann Tel.: -336
  • Trailer and fuel consumption statistics
 
European policy and VDA branch office in Brussels

Ralf Diemer Tel.: +32 2 50460-67Fax: +32 2 50460-68
Annika Lander Tel.: +32 2 50460-66
 
 
 
 
Tineke BartschTel.: -123
  • Political Communication Berlin
 
Transport policy

Dr. Michael Niedenthal Tel.: -360
  • National and international transport policy, energy-, environment- and social-political issues related to traffic, telematics, and transport in the automotive industry
Dr. Volker Schott Tel.: -361
  • Passenger and goods transport issues, data analyses and forecasts
 
Inhouse communication

Wolfgang Bartsch Tel.: -180
  • IT business strategy, EDP network responsibility, telecommunication and mobile communication