Easy. As a social democrat Asmussen gets his marching orders out of the Willy Brandt-Haus.

Seriously:

I think Asmussen is because of his long career inside the finance ministry more used to public diplomacy and the necessity of compromise. He is also used to support his boss in public, in this case Draghi.

Weidmann is more a product of the absolute and irresponsible Bundesbank culture.

Not much of an explanation but the best I can muster.

 

A man who plans his career as a Bundesbanker can only win if the Euro and the ECB break up. A man who plans a political career in the next grand coalition has a different angle.

perhaps. But that is a matter of shifting majorities on the council, not mystical Bundesbank powers.