Presidial and Nomination Committee

The Presidial and Nomination Committee deals with and in part prepares legal and administrative matters as well as issues of fundamental significance for business and corporate policy for the Board of Supervisory Directors. In urgent matters it can take final decisions (urgency decisions) in place of the Board of Supervisory Directors. The Presidial and Nomination Committee furthermore attends to nomination matters.

Members of the Presidial and Nomination Committee of the Board of Supervisory Directors

Chair of the Presidial and Nomination Committee:

Dr Robert Habeck
Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action

Deputy Chair:

Christian Lindner
Federal Minister of Finance

Further members are:

Dr André Berghegger
Member of the German Bundestag

• Substitute if unable to perform duties:
  Verena Hubertz
  Member of the German Bundestag

Volker Bouffier
Minister President of the State of Hesse (retired)

• Substitute if unable to perform duties:
  Reinhold Hilbers
  Minister of Finance of the State of Lower Saxony

Reiner Hoffmann
Chair of the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB) (retired)

• Substitute if unable to perform duties:
  Stefan Körzell
  Member of the Executive Board of the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB)

Helmut Schleweis
President of the German Savings Banks Association (DSGV)

• Substitute if unable to perform duties:
  Dr Hans-Walter Peters
  President of the Federal Association of German Banks (BdB) (retired)

Holger Schwannecke
Secretary General of the German Confederation
of Skilled Crafts and Small Business (ZDH)

• Substitute if unable to perform duties:
  Dr Joachim Lang
  CEO and Director General of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) (retired)

As of June 2022