The current Volkswagen Group Women’s Representative, Anja Christmann, has moved on to a more... managerial role after being appointed human resources manager for the Emden plant. Her place as Volkswagen Group Women’s Representative will be taken by Elke Heitmulle, who was until recently in charge with dealer organization and development.
“Anja Christmann has been very successful in promoting the advancement of women. More than 20 percent of newly recruited graduates at Volkswagen are women and the number of master craftswomen at Volkswagen has more than doubled since 2003,” said Horst Neumann, Volkswagen board member for human resources when announcing the new appointments.
Christmann, holder of a degree in education, started her management role at Volkswagen in 1998, when she was appointed women’s representative at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. In 2002, she took over the human resources department.
Her new role at the Emden plant will see her taking charge of an employee pool of some 7,500 people. The plant is the place of birth of the Passat model and the only place where the Passat Variant and the Passat CC are being built. According to Volkswagen, some 200,000 vehicles left the assembly lines in 2009.
Elke Heitmulle has been with Volkswagen since 2002, when she took over the women’s representative role, replacing the same Christmann at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.
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