Former Volkswagen Chairman Ferdinand Piech is challenging VW's choice of two of his nieces to replace him and his wife as supervisory board members, a German newspaper said.Piech is nominating Wolfgang Reitzle, a former BMW product chief and ex-head of Ford's now-defunct Premier Automotive Group, along with former Siemens manager Brigitte Ederer instead, German daily Bild said today, without citing sources. Reitzle is seen as a potential VW chairman, the paper said.
Earlier in the day, VW said Louise Kiesling and Julia Kuhn-Piech will fill the board slots vacated last week when the former VW chairman and his wife, Ursula, quit after Piech lost a showdown he had provoked with CEO Martin Winterkorn.
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