Biography | Oliver Blume — The International Trainee Year Began on Auto-Union-Strasse

The first Audi job is often told as if it started in a museum.

The museum mobile and the Forum behind this pin opened only in December 2000.

Blume arrived six years earlier.

The official curriculum puts him on Audi's international trainee programme in 1994.

In 1996 he was a planner for body construction and the paint shop.

In 1999 he headed body manufacturing for the Audi A3.

In 2001 he became executive assistant for production.

The plant around Auto-Union-Straße 1 was already the company's largest site.

The Forum is the public door onto that same ground.

It is the building a visitor can enter.

The offices where a trainee sat in 1994 are not.

From Ingolstadt the path ran through SEAT in Martorell and Volkswagen brand planning in Wolfsburg before Porsche.

The four rings at this address were the first employer, not a later honorary stop.

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