After the fall of the berlin wall nov 9th on d. W. For over rich and home the fortune for the. Books. The berlin wall came down 3 decades ago it happened suddenly for many people and triggered a lengthy process of social political and economic change parts of Eastern Germany is still trying to reinvent themselves and hold on to those young people who are
eager to move away upheaval when everything changes thats our focus today on mate we start in the eastern german city of the one thing that hasnt changed there is the construction of cars a Tradition Dating back to 9904 its where the iconic truck was produced in the days of communist east germany. Took over the company in 1900 modernised the plant now its really engineering the business once more to make electric cars joining a revolution of a different type the green push towards immobility something good for the planet this time as opposed to the trouble he which is germans waited years to get their hands on and despite conjuring up
eager to move away upheaval when everything changes that s our focus today on mate we start in the eastern german city of the one thing that hasn t changed there is the construction of cars a tradition dating back to 9904 it s where the iconic truck was produced in the days of communist east germany. took over the company in 1900 modernised the plant now it s really engineering the business once more to make electric cars joining a revolution of a different type the green push towards immobility something good for the planet this time as opposed to the trouble he which is germans waited years to get their hands on and despite conjuring up feelings of nostalgia really did stick. this 2 stroke engine belongs to a church and it s a car you would have seen all of the east german roads 30 years ago and generic
same options was produced and then it was changed and you could also not choose which options were in the car that you got delivered so one thing that doesn t seem to have changed is that there are so few women working in your area and so few women in leadership positions folks one is working very hard on diversity and inclusion in the whole focus one group we do have a chief human resource officer at bentley and no just recently also i was her son actor. is a woman that was appointed so i m not the only one anymore and i m glad for that and i hope that this development continues. so would you say you ve profited from a major crisis of a system twice now the fall of the wall and then he s ok. i think it s fair to say that yes. i would probably not be in the position that i would now follow
everything and fix it fast this was the 1st car i had as a student these days you can find the so-called tragedies in a museum here in ca cal common you factoring has a century long history. set is employed by a company that to mum s flexibility he sees to that i must have had 10 different jobs he s always been happy to go where he s needed and i started in the paint shop and then i was working in sales and customer service i worked in assembly for a short time too i ve been in a number of different locations including south africa that was a very interesting time on that side. but the biggest change is yet to come the plantain sicko is being converted into an electric car factory.
that must have been a shock it took i guess 6 years before i had my 1st b.m.w. when i came to. my 1st car there was a course 10 years old when i boarded and that was already a for me i have another off. but i was always thrilled. even as a kid even as a kid i had more matchbox then. i have 2 older brothers so that there was no option so the male dominated car industry wasn t wasn t really a challenge for you. i wasn t afraid of it. i knew that. i have to speak the language of the other so i know more about the horse power than about the colors of the car so to say it was so fascinating to see that every car