n.a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session
Soon afterwards he was elected to the praesidium of his one-time tormentor, the Composers' Union, and the old hostility of Soviet officialdom towards him gradually crumbled during the Gorbachev era of perestroika.
Mr Wiedeking has gained a seat on the Praesidium, the inner circle of Volkswagen's supervisory board, and his chief financial officer Holger Haerter is set to join the board on 3 May.