Ludger Fretzen (45) has been appointed CEO of Volkswagen-Audi España, S.A. (Barcelona) effective September 1, 2010. He is currently head of product marketing at the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand in Wolfsburg. He moves to Spain to succeed Juan Manuel Baselga (61), who is taking retirement.

 

Ludger Fretzen joined the Volkswagen Group in 1991. He became sales manager for Scandinavia at Volkswagen Passenger Cars in 1993, moving to Group sales management in 1996. Fretzen was given responsibility for product strategy in the Marketing division in 1998. He has been in charge of global product marketing at Volkswagen Passenger Cars since 2000.