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Vossloh's Supervisory Board

Vossloh AG’s Supervisory Board has six members. Since, in the wake of the various transactions conducted in 2002, the number of German employees has fallen below the threshold of 2,000 employees, the Supervisory Board composition is no longer governed by the German codetermination legislation of 1976. Supervisory Board membership is now subject to the provisions of the German Stock Corporation Act (“AktG”) and thus also to those of the German Industrial Constitution Act 1952 according to which one-third of its members must be employee representatives and two-thirds stockholder representatives.

The Supervisory Board oversees and advises the Executive Board’s management and conduct of business. Certain material transactions and Executive Board actions (specified in the Executive Board Rules of Procedure) are subject to prior Supervisory Board approval. The Supervisory Board periodically discusses with the Executive Board the business trend, as well as the corporate plan and strategy and their implementation. Moreover, the Supervisory Board approves the annual budget and financial statements of Vossloh AG and the Group with due regard to the reports of the internal and the statutory auditors, apart from being responsible for the appointment and removal of Executive Board members.


Supervisory Board Chairman
Dr.-Ing. Wilfried Kaiser


Supervisory Board:
  • Dipl.-Ing. Wilfried Kaiser, Chairman, Munich, degreed engineer, former executive board member of Asea Brown Boveri AG
    • EvoBus GmbH: supervisory board member
    • ACTech GmbH: Advisory board member (as from July 3, 2007)
    • schenck.de AG: supervisory board chairman
    • BHS Getriebe Holding GmbH: advisory board chairman (up to June 18, 2007)
    • Hugo Kern und Liebers GmbH & Co. KG: director
    • Karl Eugen Fischer Holding GmbH: advisory board chairman

  • Peter Langenbach, Vice-Chairman, Wuppertal, lawyer
    • Credit- und Volksbank eG, Wuppertal: supervisory board member

  • Dr. Jürgen Blume, Bad Bentheim, sworn public auditor and tax accountant

  • Dr. Christoph Kirsch, Weinheim, former CFO of Südzucker AG
    • GELITA AG: supervisory board member (as from May 3, 2007)

  • Wolfgang Klein1, Werdohl, galvanizer, Group Works Council Chairman

  • Michael Ulrich1, Kiel, mechanic

1 Employee representative



Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board:
Dr. Hans Vossloh, Werdohl


The Advisory Board:
Vossloh AG’s Advisory Board has three members who are appointed by the Executive Board with the Supervisory Board’s prior approval. The Advisory Board’s functions include to counsel the Executive Board on request regarding any business matters involving Vossloh AG.