The Supervisory Board

Born in 1955

Managing Director of Impacting l GmbH & Co. KG and Impact GmbH

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2015

1975 - 1984
Studied Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration at the Technical University of Munich (TUM; qualified engineer, qualified industrial engineer)

1978 - 1979
Rotary Foundation scholarship, University of Illinois, USA

1982 - 1984
Assistant at the Chair of Flight Propulsion at the TUM

1984
Obtained doctorate (Dr. Ing.)

1984 - 2012
McKinsey & Company, Inc., New York

Since 2012
Managing Director, Impacting I GmbH & Co. KG and Impact GmbH

Since 2013
Lectureship at the TUM (Finance and Accounting)

Since 2019
Honorary professor at the TUM (School of Management)

 

Membership of Other Supervisory Boards and Comparable Supervisory Bodies:

Chairman of the Advisory Council of ATHOS Service GmbH

Born in 1968

Director General, Bavarian State Chancellery

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2013

1995
Second State Examination in Law, Munich

2002
Obtained doctorate (Dr. jur.)

1996 - 2018
Functions in various Bavarian State Ministries

Since 2018
Director General, Bavarian State Chancellery

Born in 1966

Attorney in his own law firm

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2008

1995
Second State Examination in Law

1995 - 2021
Attorney and in-house lawyer, UniCredit Bank AG

Since November 2021
Attorney in his own law firm

Born in 1969

President of the Max Planck Society, Munich

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2023

1989 - 1995
Studied Chemistry at the Universities of Stuttgart, Heidelberg; Bristol and Cambridge (UK)

1995
Graduate degree in Chemistry (Diplom), University of Heidelberg

1995 - 1998
Doctoral candidate at EMBL Grenoble, France

1998
Doctoral degree in Biochemistry, awarded by the University of Heidelberg and EMBL

1999 - 2001
Post-doctorate at Stanford University, USA

2001 - 2003
Tenure-track professor for Biochemistry at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich

2004 - 2014
Professor for Biochemistry, LMU, Munich

2007 - 2009
Dean of the Faculty for Chemistry and Pharmacy, LMU, Munich

2004 - 2013
Director of the Gene Center Munich, LMU

2010 - 2013
Head of the Department of Biochemistry, LMU, Munich

2014 - 2021
Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen

Since 2017
Honorary Professor at the Georg August University of Göttingen

2022 - 2023
Director of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen

Born in 1971

Deputy Chair of the Employee Council, Burghausen Site, Wacker Chemie AG

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2023

1998 - 2000
Advanced technical certificate

2003 - 2004
Certified IT specialist

1991 - 2002
Served as a temporary soldier

2004 - 2006
Software developer, OSB AG

2006
Software developer, BenQ Mobile

2006 - 2012
Software developer, Seidenader GmbH

2012 - 2016
Software developer, Wacker Chemie AG

Since 2016
Full-time member of the Employee Council, Burghausen Site, Wacker Chemie AG

At present
Deputy Chair of the Employee Council, Burghausen Site, Wacker Chemie AG

Born in 1977

Deputy Chair of the Group and General Employee Councils, Wacker Chemie AG

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2018

1993 - 1996
Qualified as a chemical technician

2001 - 2003
Went on to qualify as a master technician in chemistry and environmental technology

Since 2011
Full-time member of the Employee Council, Burghausen Site, Wacker Chemie AG

At present
Deputy Chair of the Group and General Employee Councils of Wacker Chemie AG

Born in 1971

Chair of the Employee Council, Burghausen Site, Wacker Chemie AG

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2003

Deputy Chair of the Supervisory Board

1995 - 1997
Trade union secretary, IG BCE labor union

Since 1998
Full-time member of the Employee Council, Burghausen Site, Wacker Chemie AG

Since 2005
State-certified HR specialist

Since 2016
Chair of the Employee Council, Burghausen Site, Wacker Chemie AG

Born in 1980

Chair of the General and Group Employee Councils, Wacker Chemie AG

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2017

1996 - 2000
Qualified as a chemical technician

2000 - 2006
Machine operator / chemical technician

2006 - 2013
Full-time member of the Employee Council

2014 - 2017
Deputy Chair of the Employee Council, Burghausen Site, Wacker Chemie AG

Since 2018
Deputy Chair of the General Employee Council, Wacker Chemie AG

At present
Chair of the Group and General Employee Councils of Wacker Chemie AG

Born in 1971

Vice President Engineering & Maintenance Services, Wacker Chemie AG

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2023

1991 - 1997
Chemical Engineering, University of Dortmund

1997 - 2000
Doctorate in Engineering, University of Dortmund

2000 - 2007
Wacker Chemie GmbH / Wacker Chemie AG, Project Engineering and Corporate Development

2007 - 2008
Knorr-Bremse AG, Chief Representative of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board and company owner Mr. H.H. Thiele

Since 2008
Wacker Chemie AG, various management functions in engineering at the Burghausen and Nünchritz sites

Since 2019
Vice President Engineering & Maintenance Services, Wacker Chemie AG

Born in 1966

Regional head of the IG BCE labor union, Bavaria

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2023

1982 - 1986
Qualified as power electronics technician, RAG Mine at Osterfeld

1986 - 1992
Worked as power electronics technician, RAG

Since 1992
Various positions within IG BCE labor union

1994 - 1995
Akademie der Arbeit (“Academy of Labor”), Frankfurt am Main

At present
Regional head of the IG BCE labor union, Bavaria

 

Membership of Other Supervisory Boards and Comparable Supervisory Bodies:

Member of the Supervisory Board of Adidas AG

Member of the Supervisory Board of Gesellschaft zur Sicherung von Bergmannswohnungen mbH

Born in 1977

Member of the Employee Council, Burghausen Site, Wacker Chemie AG

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2023

1995 - 1998
Qualified as an energy electronics technician

Since 2001
State examined electrical engineer

Since 2014
Full-time member of the Employee Council, Burghausen Site, Wacker Chemie AG

Since 2020
State examined Human Resources specialist

Born in 1988

Attorney and in-house lawyer / investment manager of Athos KG

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2018

2006 - 2008
Diploma of Higher Education in International Relations & Modern History

2008 - 2011
BA Corporate Management & Economics

2020
Second State Examination in Law

Since 2020
Attorney

Since 2021
Attorney and in-house lawyer / investment manager of Athos KG

Born in 1984

Certified German Public Auditor / Certified German Tax Advisor

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2022

2008
Degree in business administration at the University of Mannheim

2011
Obtained doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.)

2008 - 2014
Ernst & Young GmbH, Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft (audit firm) in Freiburg and Stuttgart, various functions, the last being Manager / Engagement Leader, Auditing (authorized signatory)

Since 2014
Auditing and tax advisory firm, Burghaun

Since 2015
Professorship in General Business Studies, specializing in financial accounting, Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences

 

Membership of Other Supervisory Boards and Comparable Supervisory Bodies:

Member of the Supervisory Board of Aixtron SE (listed)

Born in 1961

Commercial lawyer, most recently at the law firm of Weiss Walter Fischer-Zernin

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2008

1989
Second State Examination in Law

Since 1989
Commercial lawyer

1994
Obtained doctorate (Dr. jur.)

 

Membership of Other Supervisory Boards and Comparable Supervisory Bodies:

Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board, ROFA INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION AG

Member of the Supervisory Board of Porr AG, Austria

Member of the Supervisory Board of UBM Development AG, Austria

Born in 1969

Altötting District Chairman of the IG BCE labor union

Member of the Supervisory Board since 2024

1986 - 1989
Trained as an aircraft mechanic (German Air Force Supply Regiment 1 Erding)

1989 - 1990
Aircraft Mechanic, Technical Group 11 Erding

1990 - 1992
Full-time Chief Youth and Trainee Representative at the Federal Ministry of Defense, Bonn

1992 - 1997
Youth Education Officer, German Labor Union Confederation (DGB), Upper Bavaria

1997 - 2001
District DGB Chairman, Altötting/Mühldorf

2001 - 2014
Regional DGB Chairman, Southeast Upper Bavaria

2014 - 2024
Regional DGB Managing Director, Upper Bavaria

Since 2024
Altötting District Chairman of the IG BCE labor union

 

Membership of Other Supervisory Boards and Comparable Supervisory Bodies:

Member of the Supervisory Board of Siltronic AG, Munich