[4] From July 1995 until the end of 2002, Pötsch was chairman of the board of management at Dürr AG in Stuttgart.

[2][6] Since November 2009, Pötsch has additionally been a board member for finance at Porsche Automobil Holding.

[4][7] He held the position until 2015, when he was appointed chairman of the executive board at Porsche, succeeding Martin Winterkorn.

[8] Following the resignation of Ferdinand Piëch, Pötsch additionally became chairman of the supervisory board at Volkswagen in 2015.

[10] In 2016, a German market manipulation probe into the Volkswagen emissions scandal expanded to include Pötsch.