Stuttgart (Germany) – The Supervisory Board and the Board of Management of Daimler AG have agreed on the future composition of the boards of Mercedes-Benz AG and Daimler Truck AG. Both Daimler boards plan to appoint Ola Källenius as future Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG. In this function, he will be responsible for the worldwide activities of the Cars & Vans divisions. In addition, as resolved by the Supervisory Board on 26 September 2018, he is to become Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG as the parent company in dual function.
Furthermore, the Supervisory Board and the Board of Management of Daimler AG also plan to appoint Martin Daum as future Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler Truck AG. He will also in future be a member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG, responsible for the Daimler Trucks & Buses divisions. Daimler Truck AG shall in future be responsible for the global trucks and buses business.
In July 2018, the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG decided to transform the current Cars and Vans as well as Trucks and Buses divisions into legally independent entities. Under the umbrella and guidance of Daimler AG, two new operating stock corporations will be created in the course of this project: Mercedes-Benz AG for the Cars and Vans divisions and Daimler Truck AG for the Trucks and Buses divisions. The final decision on the new corporate structure will be taken by the shareholders at the Annual General Meeting of Daimler AG on 22 May 2019. Daimler Financial Services AG, which is already legally independent, will operate as Daimler Mobility AG from July 2019.
Both Mercedes-Benz AG and Daimler Truck AG will be co-determined German stock corporations headquartered in Stuttgart. After the hive-down takes effect, the Supervisory Board of each company will – � � as required by law – consist of 20 members, ten of whom will be shareholder representatives and ten employee representatives.
If the shareholders approve the new structure at the Annual General Meeting of Daimler AG on 22 May 2019, it is intended that the Supervisory Board of Mercedes-Benz AG and the Supervisory Board of Daimler Truck AG will decide on the composition of the Boards of Management in September 2019. The Supervisory Boards of both companies are to be increased to 20 members each before the hive-down takes effect. To this end, proposed candidates have been coordinated with the employee representative side. The ten nominated shareholder representatives for each company will be elected at the Annual General Meetings of Mercedes-Benz AG and Daimler Truck AG in September 2019.
At the same Annual General Meetings, Daimler AG as the sole shareholder is to elect ten employee representatives each to the Supervisory Boards of Mercedes-Benz AG and Daimler Truck AG on the basis of proposals by the employee side. In this way, the continuous work of the Supervisory Board including the involvement of the employees is ensured.
Against this background, the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG have agreed to elect the following shareholder representatives to the Supervisory Board of Mercedes-Benz AG:
Manfred Bischoff, who is to assume the office of Chairman of the Supervisory Board subject to a corresponding resolution of the Supervisory Board,
Valeria Gargiulo
Petraea Heynike
Joe Kaeser
Robert Köthner
Bernd Pischetsrieder
Wilfried Porth
Gesa Reimelt
Marie Wieck
Harald Wilhelm
For the Supervisory Board of Daimler Truck AG, the following shareholder representatives have been designated:
Ola Källenius, who is to assume the office of Chairman of the Supervisory Board subject to a corresponding resolution of the Supervisory Board,
Bader M. Al Saad
Sari Baldauf
Clemens Börsig
Jürgen Hambrecht
Sabine Kohleisen
Annette Matzat
Wilfried Porth
Hubertus Troska
Harald Wilhelm
For election to the Supervisory Board of Mercedes-Benz AG, the employee representative side has proposed to Daimler AG:
Ergun Lümali, Chairman of the Works Council at the Sindelfingen plant
Michael Häberle, Chairman of the Works Council at the Untertürkheim plant
Michael Peters, Chairman of the Works Council at the Bremen plant
Helmut Stengel, Chairman of the Works Council at the Düsseldorf plant
Michael Rahmel, Chairman of the Works Council at the Berlin plant
Jörg Thiemer, Chairman of the Works Council at the Hamburg plant
Michael Brecht, Chairman of the Works Council at the Gaggenau plant
Nadine Boguslawski, First Authorized Representative of IG Metall Stuttgart
Sibylle Wankel, Legal Counsel, IG Metall Board of Directors Frankfurt/Main
Frank Weber, Chairman of Senior Managers’ Committee and Senior Managers’ Committee Sindelfingen
For election to the Supervisory Board of Daimler Truck AG, the employee representative side has proposed to Daimler AG:
Michael Brecht, Chairman of the Works Council at the Gaggenau plant
Thomas Zwick, Chairman of the Works Council at the Wörth plant
Joachim Horner, Chairman of the Works Council at the Mannheim plant
Jörg Lorz, Chairman of the Works Council at the Kassel plant
Florence Göckeritz, Works Council at headquarters
Frank Trampedach, Chairman of the Works Council at Own Retail Kassel
Ergun Lümali, Chairman of the Works Council at the Sindelfingen plant
Claudia Peter, Executive Director IG Metall Gaggenau
Roman Zitzelsberger, IG Metall Regional Director Baden-Württemberg
Markus Maier, Member of Senior Managers’ Committee and Senior Managers’ Committee at headquarters
With regard to the future composition of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG, the Supervisory Board and Board of Management of Daimler AG have agreed – subject to the decision of the Supervisory Board of Mercedes-Benz AG planned for September 2019 – to seek the appointment of the following members of the Board of Management:
Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG
Jörg Burzer, Production & Supply Chain Management
Renata Jungo Brüngger, Integrity and Legal Affairs
Sajjad Khan, CASE/EVA
Sabine Kohleisen, Human Resources
Frank Lindenberg, Finance and Controlling
Markus Schäfer, Research and Development
Britta Seeger, Marketing and Sales
Wilko Stark, Procurement and Supplier Quality
With regard to the future composition of the Board of Management of Daimler Truck AG, the Supervisory Board and the Board of Management of Daimler AG have agreed - subject to the decision of the Supervisory Board of Daimler Truck AG planned for September 2019 - to seek the appointment of the following members of the Board of Management:
Martin Daum, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler Truck AG
Stefan Buchner, Region Europe/Latin America and the brand Mercedes-Benz
Sven Ennerst, Product Engineering and Procurement
Jochen Götz, Finance and Controlling
Jürgen Hartwig, Human Resources
Roger Nielsen, Region NAFTA and the brands Freightliner, Western Star und Thomas Built Buses
Hartmut Schick, Region Asia and brands FUSO and BharatBenz