Year of the Wulff

Politicians rarely become pin-ups for activist investors. But Christian Wulff, premier of the German state of Lower Saxony, has the chance to be just that. The politician sits in the middle of one of the most important power battles in corporate Germany: the fight for control of Volkswagen. He is the one person with the power to stop long-standing VW chairman Ferdinand Piech from shoehorning his family company, the Porsche car group, into a position of influence at the carmaker. Porsche has bou...