Klaus Zyciora

Career

Zyciora studied industrial design at Braunschweig University of Art. He graduated in 1989 and began working at Volkswagen as an automotive interior designer. His first project at the company was designing the interior of the Volkswagen Golf Mk4. He later became exterior designer and concept designer at Volkswagen before becoming head of Interior Design in 2000 then head of Exterior Design in 2002, before becoming head of Design (for the Volkswagen marque) and executive director in 2007. with his previous position being taken over by Jozef Kabaň.

Zyciora is the designer of all current Volkswagen ID. series production models; the ID.3, ID.4, ID.5, ID.6, ID.7, ID. Buzz and the ID. Buggy concept.

In December 2022, Volkswagen Group announced that Zyciora would be leaving the company and that Michael Mauer will be replacing him as the Head of Volkswagen Group Design on 1 January 2023.

On 7 October 2023, Klaus Zyciora became a vice president at Changan Automobile and in charge of the group's global design.