Infineon's Schumacher could face legal action

That's underlined by a report in Die Welt.

The newspaper said that Siemens' overall lord triggered the dismissal, aided and abetted by workers and by people within the organisation.

Die Welt also runs a piece today underlining the possibility that Schumacher became the flavour of yesterday, possibly because of his authoritarian tendencies.

This is amplified in today's c't magazine, which suggests that Infineon outsourced a tad too much and could have fallen foul of a number of laws.

The right wing newspapers - c't non compris - reported that Schumacher spent too much on "image" and had become a pain in Siemens proverbial butt, possibly because he had hit out at the management techniques of the German Giant.

All sorts of claims and rumours are doing the rounds, with the Infineon spinners in disarray. The man disappeared from Infineon quickly, and the firm's web site has apparently been scrubbed clean since last Thursday.

A search on the Infineon web site today for Schumacher gives the following reply: "Unfortunately your search has returned no matches". It's almost as if Schumacher had never existed, never mind his smoking materials.

The relevant articles in German are L'INQed below. µ

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