STUTTGART – April 19, 2010 – In today’s session the Supervisory Board of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, resolved not only changes in membership on the Supervisory Board, but also an increase in the number of Board Members to 20 Members in all. There are no changes, however, at the top of the Supervisory Board, Dr. Wolfgang Porsche being unanimously re-elected as the Chairman and Uwe Hück as his Deputy.
Apart from Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, the shareholders are represented as before on the Supervisory Board by Prof. Dr. Ferdinand K. Piëch, Dr. Ferdinand Oliver Porsche, Hans-Peter Porsche, and Dr. Hans Michel Piëch. New Members of the Board are Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG and the Chairman of the Board of Management of Porsche Automobil Holding SE, Hans Dieter Pötsch, Member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG and Member of the Board of Management of Porsche Automobil Holding SE, Dr. Francisco Javier Garcia Sanz, Member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG, Christian Klingler, Member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG, and Prof. Dr. Horst Neumann, Member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG. Ferdinand Piëch jr., Prof. Dr. Ulrich Lehner, and Josef Ahorner are no longer on the Supervisory Board of Porsche AG.
As in the past, the employees are represented on the Supervisory Board by Uwe Hück, Werner Weresch, Antonio Girone, Walter Uhl, Rolf Frech, Jürgen Kapfer, Hans Baur, and Hansjörg Schmierer. As a result of the enlargement of the Board, Günther Magerer, the Deputy Chairman of the Works Council of Porsche AG, and Kai Bliesener, the Press Spokesman of the IG Metall Baden-Württemberg metal-workers’ union, were appointed new Members of the Board representing the employees.
In today’s session the Supervisory Board also appointed Dr. Hans Michel Piëch, Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn, Hans Dieter Pötsch representing the shareholders and Hans Baur, Werner Weresch, and Walter Uhl representing the employees as new Members of the Permanent Committee of the Supervisory Board joining Dr. Wolfgang Porsche and Uwe Hück in this function.
Source: Porsche AG, Press Release
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