For jobs and prosperity
Not only the fantastic large presses from Erfurt, which we sent worldwide throughout the Group, but also components like headlights from Ruhla for the Golf. Those were largely manufactured in Saxony.”
However, it was not only a matter of business to Hahn: “We also simply wanted to help. Because we knew how miserably people were doing under the difficult circumstances they had to work in.” A future and opportunities for the people Then, in Berlin, on November 9, 1989, the Wall fell after 28 years, which opened up the German-German border bit by bit – and Volkswagen was standing right at the head of the line. “Because of our GDR projects, we knew where and to whom we had to go, unlike all the other manufacturers. We knew all the high-ranking officials in the organizations and could immediately start working constructively,” Carl H. Hahn reminisces.