Crisis at VW: In the second largest factory in Baunatal, an entire city depends on the car.

Timur Ortac doesn’t have much time. His shift as a logistics specialist in the brick-red factory begins in a few minutes. When he comes out again at 10:30 p.m., the huge letters on the factory roof will shine far beyond the borders of the small northern Hesse town of Baunatal: VOLKSWAGEN.