The Audit Committee prepares matters relating to accounting and risk management. In particular, it deals with monitoring the accounting process, the effectiveness of the internal control system, the internal audit system and the risk management system, auditing the annual and group financial statements, the required independence of the auditor and determines the main points of the audit.

Chair of the Audit Committee:

Daniel Quinten
Member of the Board of Managing Directors of the National Association of German Cooperative Banks (BVR)

Deputy Chair:

Katherina Reiche
Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy

Further Members are:

Katharina Beck
Member of the German Bundestag

• Substitute if unable to perform duties:
  Frank Schäffler
  Member of the German Bundestag (retired)

Dr Heiko Geue
Minister of Finance of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

• Substitute if unable to perform duties:
  Stefan Evers
  Mayor and Senator for Finance of the State of Berlin

Marion Höllinger
Member of the Board of Managing Directors of the Association of German Banks (BdB)

• Substitute if unable to perform duties:
  Gero Bergmann
  Member of the Board of Management of BayernLB

Lars Klingbeil
Federal Minister of Finance

Dr Thorsten Rudolph
Member of the German Bundestag

• Substitute if unable to perform duties:
  Olav Gutting
  Member of the German Bundestag

Karolin Schriever
Executive Member of the Board of the German Savings Banks Association (DSGV)

• Substitute if unable to perform duties:
  Gero Bergmann
  Member of the Board of Management of BayernLB

As of March 2026