Dieter Zetsche is a German engineer and business executive. He serves as the chairman of TUI AG. Zetsche was the chairman of the board of management at Daimler AG and the head of Mercedes-Benz until 22 May 2019, a position he held since 2006. Additionally, he had been a member of Daimler's board since 1998.
Franz Fehrenbach is a German engineer and manager who was the chairman of Robert Bosch GmbH.
Joe Kaeser is a German manager who served as CEO of Siemens AG from 2013 to 2021.
Heinrich Hiesinger is a German engineer and manager who served as the CEO of ThyssenKrupp from 2011 until 2018.
Christoph Franz is a German engineer and manager who served as chief executive officer of Lufthansa from 2011 until 2014.
Frank Appel has been CEO of Deutsche Post since 18 February 2008. His present appointment is through October 2022. He has been Member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Post AG since 1 November 2002.
Werner Baumann is a German businessman who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Bayer from 2016 to May 2023.
Carsten Spohr is a German airline executive. Since May 2014 he has been the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Lufthansa.
Kurt Bock, is a German businessman who has been president of the German Chemical Industry Association since 2016, and was chief executive officer (CEO) of BASF, the world's largest chemical producer, from 2011 to 2018.
Karl-Ludwig Kley is a German business executive.
Stefan Oschmann is a German businessman. He was the CEO of pharma group Merck.
Dr. Volkmar Denner is a German business executive who was the CEO of Robert Bosch GmbH from 2012 July to 2021 December.
Thomas Rabe is a German business executive. In 2006, he was appointed to the Bertelsmann executive board, of which he has been chairman and chief executive officer since 2012. Under his leadership, the group has become more international, more digital and more diversified. In particular, he has advanced the business with music rights and the educational division. Additionally, Rabe was appointed chief executive officer of RTL Group in 2019.
Hans Van Bylen is a Belgian manager who has been serving as the CEO of Henkel from May 2016 to December 2019. He is married with three children.
Martin Zielke is a German bank manager who served as chief executive officer and chairman of the board of managing directors of Commerzbank from 2016 until 2020.
Hubertus von Baumbach is a German businessman who is the chairman and CEO of Boehringer Ingelheim, Germany's second largest pharmaceutical company.
Carsten Knobel is a German manager. Since January 1, 2020 he has been CEO of Henkel, a multinational consumer goods and industrial company listed in the German DAX index. Carsten Knobel is also a member of the supervisory board of Lufthansa.
Martina Merz, is a German engineer who served as Chief executive officer (CEO) of ThyssenKrupp from 2019 to 2023, and has been called "the most powerful woman in the German economy".
Michael Theurer is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg from 2017 to 2024. From 2009 until 2017, he was a Member of the European Parliament.
Wolfgang Schmidt is a German politician and jurist who has been serving as Federal Minister for Special Affairs, Head of the Chancellery and Commissioner for the Federal Intelligence Services since 2021. He was previously State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance under Minister Olaf Scholz in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021.
