Matthias Müller

What grabs me about Matthias Müller is the arc: a kid from Chemnitz who trained as a tool and die maker before climbing all the way to the top of Porsche and then Volkswagen. That is the opposite of a glamorous founder myth, and I find it more compelling for it. He took the CEO chair in 2015, right in the teeth of the diesel emissions storm, which means he is remembered as much for crisis management as for cars. I have a soft spot for executives who inherit the mess rather than create the hype, and Müller strikes me as exactly that kind of steady, unshowy operator.

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Name (English)

Matthias Müller

Name (Japanese)

マティアス・ミュラー

Reading

まてぃあす・みゅらー

Born

June 9, 1953 (age 73)

Origin

Chemnitz, Germany

Occupation

business executive / entrepreneur / industrialist / chairman of the executive board / tool and die maker

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Snake

University

Munich University of Applied Sciences

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias%20M%C3%BCller%20(businessman)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A5%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%20(%E5%AE%9F%E6%A5%AD%E5%AE%B6)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1910173

Tags

• business executive
• entrepreneur
• industrialist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.