VW Chairman Question Is Open as Investors Meet Without Piech

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At Volkswagen AG’s shareholder meeting, the elephant in the room has a name: Ferdinand Piech.

Tuesday’s gathering of some 3,000 investors in Hanover, Germany, was the first in more than two decades without the participation of VW’s former chairman and chief executive officer, after his abrupt resignation on April 25.