The term of office of the members of the Supervisory Board ends with the completion of the Annual General Meeting that ratifies the acts of management for the 2022 financial year (2023 Annual General Meeting).
The Supervisory Board is composed of the minimum number of members required by applicable law. At present these are twelve members, six Board members representing the shareholders and six Board members representing the employees. The election of the members shall be governed by applicable law.
In accordance with the recommendations of the German Corporate Governance Code, the shareholder representatives were elected individually at the elections to the Supervisory Board.
You can find more information about the management functions of the Supervisory Board here.
The Supervisory Board is composed as follows:
Professor Dr Wolfgang Reitzle
Chairman
Former Chief
Executive Officer of Linde AG
CV Professor Dr Wolfgang Reitzle (PDF 86KB)
Gernot Hahl1
Deputy Chairman
Chairman of
the Worms Works Council,
Gases Division, Linde AG
CV Gernot Hahl (PDF 72KB)
Franz Fehrenbach
Second Deputy Chairman
Chairman
of the Supervisory Board of Robert Bosch GmbH,
Managing Partner of
Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG
CV Franz Fehrenbach (PDF 79KB)
Professor Dr Ann-Kristin Achleitner
Professor at
the Technical University Munich [TUM]
CV Professor Dr Ann-Kristin Achleitner (PDF
93KB)
Professor Dr Clemens Börsig2
Former
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank AG
CV Professor Dr Clemens Börsig (PDF 81KB)
Anke Couturier1
Head of Global Pensions,
Linde AG, Munich
CV Anke Couturier (PDF 92KB)
Dr Thomas Enders
Chief Executive
Officer of Airbus SE
CV Dr Thomas Enders (PDF 97KB)
Dr Hans-Peter Kaballo1
Chairman of the Pullach Works Council, Engineering Division, Linde AG
CV Dr Hans-Peter Kaballo (PDF 91KB)
Dr Martin Kimmich1
Second Authorised Representative of IG Metall Munich
CV Dr Martin Kimmich (PDF 73KB)
Dr Victoria Ossadnik
Chief Executive Officer of E.ON
Energie Deutschland GmbH and of E.ON Energie Holding GmbH
CV Dr Victoria Ossadnik (PDF 83KB)
Andrea Ries
Chairwoman of the Unterschleißheim Works
Council,
Gases Division, Linde AG
CV Andrea Ries (PDF 152KB)
Xaver
Schmidt1
Head of the department, Chairman of IG
Bergbau,
Chemie, Energie Hanover
CV Xaver Schmidt (PDF 80KB)
The committees of the Supervisory Board:
The Mediation Committee, in accordance with §27 (3) of the
German Codetermination Law (MitbestG)
Professor Dr
Wolfgang Reitzle (Chairman)
Gernot Hahl1
Franz
Fehrenbach
Xaver Schmidt1
The Standing Committee
Professor Dr Wolfgang Reitzle
(Chairman)
Dr Thomas Enders
Franz Fehrenbach
Gernot
Hahl1
Dr Martin Kimmich1
The Audit Committee
Professor Dr Clemens
Börsig2 (Chairman)
Professor Dr Ann-Kristin Achleitner
Gernot Hahl1
Professor Dr Wolfgang Reitzle
Xaver
Schmidt1
The Nomination Committee
Professor Dr Wolfgang Reitzle
(Chairman)
Professor Dr Ann-Kristin Achleitner
Franz Fehrenbach
1 Employee representative.
2 Independent expert member as defined by §100 (5) and §107 (4) of the German Stock Corporation Law (AktG).
Other Board Memberships (PDF 125 KB)
As of May 2018