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title: "Volkswagen Group: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, trading as Volkswagen Group, is a German multinational conglomerate automotive manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Since the late 2000s, it has been a publicly traded family business owned by Porsche SE, which in turn is half-owned but fully controlled by the Austrian-German Porsche-Piëch family."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-volkswagen-group
type: Organization
wikidata: Q156578
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group
website: https://www.volkswagenag.com/
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Volkswagen Group

> Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, trading as Volkswagen Group, is a German multinational conglomerate automotive manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Since the late 2000s, it has been a publicly traded family business owned by Porsche SE, which in turn is half-owned but fully controlled by the Austrian-German Porsche-Piëch family.

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## Facts

- Category: Autonomous vehicles
- Country: Germany
- Founded: 1937-05-28
- Headquarters: Wolfsburg
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: https://www.volkswagenag.com/
- Employees: 672,800 (as of 2021-12-31)
- Also known as: VW, Volkswagen, VOLKSWAGEN AG, Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, VW AG
- Industries: automotive industry

## Key people

- German Labor Front, founder (Association of employers and employees during the Nazi era)
- Oliver Blume, chief executive (German businessman), since 2022-09-01
- Hans Dieter Pötsch, chair (Austrian industrial engineer), since 2015-01-01
- Heinrich Nordhoff, board member (German businessman (1899–1968))
- Rudolf Leiding, board member (German businessman (1914–2003))
- Toni Schmücker, board member (German businessman (1921–1996))
- Peter Hartz (German businessman)
- Cansel Kızıltepe (Turkish-German statesperson (born 1975))
- Hans-Heinrich Barschkis (German manager, navy officer and world war II U-boat commander)
- Reinhold Kopp (German politician)
- Klaus Zyciora (Designer)
- Frank Götzke (German automotive engineer)

## Revenue

- 2012-01-01: EUR 192.7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2013-01-01: EUR 197 billion (Wikidata)
- 2014-01-01: EUR 202.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2015-01-01: EUR 213.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2016-01-01: EUR 217.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2017-01-01: EUR 230.7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2018-01-01: EUR 235.8 billion (Wikidata)
- 2019-01-01: EUR 252.6 billion (Wikidata)
- 2020-01-01: EUR 222.9 billion (Wikidata)
- 2021-01-01: EUR 250.2 billion (Wikidata)
- 2022-01-01: EUR 279.2 billion (Wikidata)
- 2023-01-01: EUR 322.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2024-01-01: EUR 324.7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2025-01-01: EUR 321.9 billion (Wikidata)

## Ownership

Parent: Porsche Automobil Holding SE
Subsidiaries: Volkswagen, Audi AG, Bentley, Bugatti, Škoda Auto, Lamborghini, MAN SE, Porsche, SEAT, Scania, Audi Sport, Italdesign Giugiaro, Volkswagen do Brasil, Porsche Holding, Volkswagen Argentina, Volkswagen Slovakia, Skoda Auto Volkswagen India, Volkswagen Group of America, ŠkoFIN, Credex Bank, AGR Automotive Group, Porsche Engineering Group, Digiteq Automotive, Porsche Česká republika, Carmeq, Volkswagen Finance Luxemburg, Volkswagen (China) Investment Company, Data:Lab Munich, Volkswagen Group Components, MOIA, Volkswagen Autoversicherung AG, Volkswagen-Design

## Products

- car
- motorcycle
- truck
- van

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Volkswagen Group, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-volkswagen-group#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156578, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Group

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