Supervisory Board

Members and offices held at other companies

Members of the Supervisory Board held offices as members of the supervisory board or a comparable supervising body of the corporations listed:

Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Werner Wenning

Leverkusen, Germany
(born October 21, 1946)


Chairman of the Supervisory Board effective October 2012

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bayer AG and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of E.ON SE
 

Memberships on other supervisory boards:

  • E.ON SE (Chairman)
  • Deutsche Bank AG
  • Siemens AG


Memberships in comparable supervising bodies of German or foreign corporations:

  • Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Member of the Shareholders´ Committee)
  • Freudenberg & Co. KG (Member of the Shareholders´ Committee)


Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Thomas de Win

Cologne, Germany
(born November 21, 1958)


Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board effective April 2002
Chairman of the Bayer Group Works Council
Chairman of the Bayer Central Works Council

 

Memberships on other supervisory boards:

  • Bayer MaterialScience AG

Other members of the Supervisory Board

Dr. Paul Achleitner

Munich, Germany
(born September 28, 1956)
Member of the Supervisory Board effective April 2002
Member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG

 

Memberships on other supervisory boards: 

  • Daimler AG
  • Deutsche Bank AG (Chairman)
  • RWE AG


Memberships in comparable supervising bodies of German or foreign corporations:

  • Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Member of the Shareholders´ Committee)

Dr. Clemens Börsig

Frankfurt am Main, Germany
(born July 27, 1948)

Member of the Supervisory Board effective April 2007
Member of various supervisory boards

 

Memberships on other supervisory boards: 

  • Daimler AG
  • Linde AG

 

Memberships in comporable supervising bodies of German or foreign corporations: 

  • Emerson Electric Co.

André van Broich

Dormagen
(born June 19, 1970)
Member of the Supervisory Board effective April 2012
Chairman of the Works Council of the Dormagen site of Bayer

Memberships on other supervisory boards:

  • Bayer CropSience AG 

Thomas Ebeling

Muri bei Bern, Switzerland
(born February 9, 1959)

Member of the Supervisory Board effective April 2012
Chief Executive Officer of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG

Dr.-Ing. Thomas Fischer

Krefeld, Germany
(born August 27, 1955)

Member of the Supervisory Board effective October 2005
Chairman of the Group Managerial Employees’ Committee of Bayer

 

Memberships on other supervisory boards:  

  • Bayer MaterialScience AG

Peter Hausmann

Winsen/Aller, Germany
(born February 13, 1954)

Member of the Supervisory Board effective April 2006

Member of the Executive Committee of the German Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union


Memberships on other supervisory boards:

  • Vivawest Wohnen GmbH

Reiner Hoffmann

Wuppertal, Germany
(born May 30, 1955)
Member of the Supervisory Board effective October 2006
North Rhine District Secretary of the German Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union

 

Memberships on other supervisory boards:  

  • Evonik Services GmbH
  • SASOL Germany GmbH

Yüksel Karaaslan

Hohen Neuendorf, Germany
(born March 1, 1968)
Member of the Supervisory Board effective April 2012
Chairman of the Works Council of the Berlin site of Bayer
Vice Chairman oft the Bayer Central Works Council


Memberships on other supervisory boards:

  • Bayer Pharma AG

Dr. rer. pol. Klaus Kleinfeld

New York, U.S.A.
(born November 6, 1957)
Member of the Supervisory Board effective April 2005
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alcoa Inc.


Memberships in comparable supervising bodies of German or foreign corporations: 

  • Member of the Board of Directors of Morgan Stanley

Petra Kronen

Krefeld, Germany
(born August 22, 1964)
Member of the Supervisory Board effective July 2000
Chairman of the Works Council of the Uerdingen site of Bayer

 

Memberships on other supervisory boards: 

  • Bayer MaterialScience AG (Vice Chairman)

Dr. rer. nat. Helmut Panke

Munich, Germany
(born August 31, 1946)
Member of the Supervisory Board effective April 2007
Member of various supervisory boards

 

Memberships in comparable supervising bodies of German or foreign corporations:  

  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Singapore Airlines Limited
  • UBS AG

Sue H. Rataj

Sebastopol U.S.A.
(born January 8, 1957)

Member of the Supervisory Board effective April 2012

Member of the Board of Directors (non-executive) of Cabot Corporation, Boston, U.S.A.

Petra Reinbold-Knape

Gladbeck, Germany
(born April 16, 1959)

Member of the Supervisory Board effective April 2012

Northeast District Secretary of the German  Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union


Memberships on other supervisory boards:

  • envia Mitteldeutsche Energie AG
  • Vattenfall Europe Generation AG


Memberships in comparable supervising bodies of German or foreign corporations:

  • MDSE Mitteldeutsche Sanierungs- und Entsorgungsgesellschaft mbH

Michael Schmidt-Kiessling

Schwelm, Germany
(born March 24, 1959)

Member of the Supervisory Board effective April 2012

Vice Chairman of the Works Council of the Elberfeld site of Bayer


Memberships on other supervisory boards:

  • Bayer Pharma AG

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ekkehard D. Schulz

Krefeld, Germany
(born July 24, 1941)

Member of the Supervisory Board effective April 2005

Member of various supervisory boards

 

Memberships on other supervisory boards: 

  • MAN SE (Vice Chairman)
  • RWE AG

Dr. Klaus Sturany*

Ascona, Switzerland
(born October 23, 1946)

Member of the Supervisory Board effective April 2007

Member of various supervisory boards

 

Memberships on other supervisory boards:  

  • Hannover Rückversicherung AG (Vice Chairman) 

 

Memberships in comparable supervising bodies of German or foreign corporations:  

  • Sulzer AG

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker

Munich, Germany
(born July 26, 1941)

Member of the Supervisory Board effective April 1997
Secretary General of the Human Frontier Science Program, Strasbourg

 

Memberships on other supervisory boards:  

  • Medigene AG (Chairman)
  • Wacker Chemie AG

Oliver Zühlke

Solingen, Germany

(born December 11, 1968)

Member of the Supervisory Board effective April 2007
Chairman of the Works Council of the Leverkusen site of Bayer
Chairman of the Bayer European Forum

Honorary Chairman

Hermann Josef Strenger

*

Independent expert member pursuant to Section 100 Paragraph 5 of the German Stock Corporation Act (AktG).

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