Oliver Blume, the 58-year-old chief executive of Volkswagen Group, has lived and breathed the mighty German car industry for three decades.
After training as an engineer, he began his career in the body shop of Audi, honing his skills at a time when German cars were still the first and last word in automotive excellence.
He surely couldn’t have imagined, or wanted, his stellar VW trajectory to end up like it did last week.
