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New Members for Giesecke & Devrients Supervisory and Advisory Boards
Thursday 07. May 2009 - At todays Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) shareholders meeting, Dr. Peter Mihatsch, long-standing Chairman of both the Supervisory and Advisory Boards, and Dr. Karl Heinz Weiss, long-serving member of the Supervisory Board and Vice Chairman of the Advisory Board, stood down from these two committees. During the same session, the shareholders meeting appointed two new members to the Supervisory Board and Advisory Board - Dr. Susanne Weiss and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gunther Reinhart.
Dr. Susanne Weiss is a financial lawyer specializing in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions and banking law. She is a mandated member of the supervisory boards of Wacker Chemie AG and the Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG, among others.
Prof. Dr.-Ing Gunther Reinhart holds the Chair of Industrial Management and Assembly Technology at the Technical University of Munich. He is a co-director of the Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management (iwb) at the Technical University of Munich and President of the Scientific Society for Production Technology, as well as spokesperson for the Bavarian Cluster for Mechatronics and Automation.
The shareholders meeting thanked Dr. Karl Heinz Weiss, a member of both committees since 1995, and Dr. Peter Mihatsch, who joined G&D in 1996 and has accompanied its transformation into a technology group over the intervening years and chaired the two committees since 1997 and 1998 respectively. Verena von Mitschke-Collande, owner of the family-run company, said: “The wealth of experience of these two men, their clearly-demonstrated expertise and their commitment and dedication have all played a significant part in the successful development of the company, which, in recent years, has been characterized by dynamic growth and a simultaneously more internationally-focused orientation.”
The Supervisory Board and Advisory Board will elect their new chairmen during the constitutive session on May 28, 2009.
The current composition of the two committees is as follows:
Supervisory Board:
Walter Bogner*
Ralf Gerlach*
Dr. Dietrich Hoppenstedt
Verena von Mitschke-Collande
Jens Mueller*
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gunther Reinhart
Michael Reinhard*
Claudia Scheck*
Peter Johann Stark*
Johannes Ignatius van der Velde
Dr. Peter-Alexander Wacker
Dr. Susanne Weiss
* employee representatives
Advisory Board:
Franz Haniel
Dr. Dietrich Hoppenstedt
Verena von Mitschke-Collande
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gunther Reinhart
Johannes Ignatius van der Velde
Dr. Peter-Alexander Wacker
Dr. Susanne Weiss