Schaeffler Group has given its “unconditional” support to Rolf Koerfer as Continental chairman following a report in the Financial Times Deutschland that he may have to quit over a power struggle between Continental and Schaeffler, the tyremaker’s controlling shareholder.

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A Schaeffler statement said a replacement for Koerfer “is not up for debate”.