MOSCOW (MRC) -- In its constitutive meeting, the new Supervisory Board of BASF has elected Dr. Jurgen Hambrecht as its new chairman, as per the company's press release.
Hambrecht thus succeeds Dr. h.c. Eggert Voscherau, who took over as chairman following the annual shareholders’ meeting 2009 and who was no longer available for re-election.
As vice chairmen, the Supervisory Board elected Michael Diekmann and Robert Oswald, both of whom had previously held this function.
The annual ahareholders’ meeting of BASF SE elected the following shareholder representatives as members of the Supervisory Board: Dame Alison Carnwath DBE, London; Professor Dr. Francois Diederich, Zurich; Michael Diekmann, Munich; Franz Fehrenbach, Stuttgart; Dr. Jurgen Hambrecht, Neustadt/Weinstrasse; Anke Schaferkordt, Cologne.
The appointments of the Supervisory Board members are valid until the end of the annual shareholders’ meeting 2019.
As MRC informed previously, in September 2013, the Supervisory Board of BASF Coatings appointed Thomas Hartmann as Managing Director and Industrial Relations Director of BASF Coatings. He succeeded Eva Muller who assumed a new position within the BASF Group.
BASF is the largest diversified chemical company in the world and is headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF produces a wide range of chemicals, for example solvents, amines, resins, glues, electronic-grade chemicals, industrial gases, basic petrochemicals and inorganic chemicals. The most important customers for this segment are the pharmaceutical, construction, textile and automotive industries.
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