Soon afterwards he was elected to the praesidium of his one-time tormentor, the Composers' Union, and the old hostility of Soviet officialdom towards him gradually crumbled during the Gorbachev era of perestroika.
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Mr Wiedeking has gained a seat on the Praesidium, the inner circle of Volkswagen's supervisory board, and his chief financial officer Holger Haerter is set to join the board on 3 May.
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