Wolfgang Mayrhuber elected to chair Lufthansa board

Lufthansa stated (07-May-2013) the vast majority of the company's shareholders voted to discharge both the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board from the past financial year. The shareholders also approved amendments to control and/or profit transfer agreements between the company and various subsidiaries. Furthermore, they endorsed the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers Aktiengesellschaft Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft to audit the individual and consolidated financial statements and to review the interim reports for 2013. Meanwhile, Wolfgang Mayrhuber was elected to chair the board and Christine Behle as his deputy. The members of the Supervisory Board for the period of office until 2018 are:

1. Jacques Aigrain. Chairman, LCH Clearnet Group Ltd;
2. Dr Werner Brandt. Member of the Executive Board, SAP AG;
3. Herbert Hainer. Chairman of the Executive Board, adidas AG;
4. Dr Jürgen Hambrecht. Former Chairman of the Executive Board, BASF SE;
5. Dr h.c. Robert M. Kimmitt. Senior International Counsel, WilmerHale;
6. Dr Karl-Ludwig Kley. Chairman of the Management Board, Merck KGaA;
7. Martin Koehler. Senior Advisor, The Boston Consulting Group;
8. Dr Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller. Managing partner and Chair of the Managing Board, TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG;
9. Wolfgang Mayrhuber. Former Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO, Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft;
10. Matthias Wissmann. President of the automotive industry trade association (VDA).

Employee representatives: The following employee representatives were elected to the Supervisory Board - effective immediately upon conclusion of the Annual General Meeting - by the employee delegates in advance of the Annual General Meeting: Christine Behle, Uwe Hien, Doris Krüger, Eckhard Lieb, Ralf Müller, Ilona Ritter, Andreas Strache, Christina Weber, Birgit Weinreich, Stefan Ziegler. [more - original PR] [more - original PR - German]