A True Aicher-Insider

An "insider" is someone who has first-hand knowledge of something, which enables him to work better than others. There is now a new insider in Berlin: Volker Kauder.

The chairman of the Christian Democrat Bundestag fraction can now call himself an insider in matters of small and medium-sized industrial companies since his visit to Aicher.

Aicher, like the whole branch, deplores the increasing shortage of skilled workers. The company therefore chose to apply the brakes and attract its own young skilled workforce through a long-term training initiative. 16 of the 116 employees are currently already trainees.

Volker Kauder was actually only expected to come to the company to open the new training workshop.

To everyone's surprise the politician rolled up his sleeves first and asked to be shown how to operate a modern automatic lathe.

Despite being initially slightly sceptical, technician Bernd Veeser demonstrated how to correctly insert a workpiece and start the machining process.

Later, however, he was full of praise for the “new employee”: “If more politicians got stuck in and asked the right questions, we wouldn’t have such a shortage of skilled workers”.

Kauder was pleased that the piece he had machined would stay in production. “Who wants their work to be wasted?”

The Aicher trainee team certainly does not; they manufacture samples and small batches – and together with training manager, Armin Lang, and personnel manager, Franziska Aicher, they answered the eager newcomer’s questions about their training.

“Now you know all the secrets of our job, we want to know about yours “, was the trainee team’s spontaneous request and they are now planning a trip to Berlin. Whether they will try their hand at his job, like Kauder did during his visit to Aicher in the Heuberg region, remains to be seen – but is not ruled out.

The machine, on which the Christian Democrat politician was “trained“, is now referred to within the company as the “Kauder machine“ – another insider.