Wolfgang Stadler will succeed Ian Robertson as managing director of BMW South Africa on February 1, according to the Business Day website.
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As widely reported late last year, Robertson will be leaving South Africa to become chairman and CEO of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited, in Goodwood, UK.
Announcing the new appointment in a statement on Wednesday, BMW reportedly said that Stadler, a mechanical engineer, had been with the BMW group for nearly 22 years, 13 at the Dingolfing Plant, where he was a team leader overseeing production of numerous models over the years.
From Dingolfing, he moved to Munich in 1996 where he worked as a director of production strategies and more recently as director of experimental vehicles, Business Day said.
According to the report, Stadler has spent the last two years as technical director of BMW’s South African plant at Rosslyn, near Pretoria.
