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AIXTRON nominated Professor Petra Denk as a candidate for the Supervisory Board. She is to be elected on 19 May by the general meeting to replace Joachim Simmroß.

Deutsche Post is to get two new Supervisory Board members. The DAX Group is proposing 41-year-old logistics professor Katja Windt to the Annual General Meeting on 25 May in Frankfurt, as the first woman on the capital side of the Supervisory Board. Also new is the President of Danone Waters, Thomas Kunz. The former RWE CEO Harry Roels and Willem van Agtmael, head of department store chain Breuninger, are leaving the supervisory body, as their terms end.

Margarete Haase is to move to the capital side of ElringKlinger's Supervisory Board. As the automotive supplier announced on 12 April, Rainer Hahn is leaving the body following the Annual General Meeting on 31 May. Haase, chief financial officer and responsible for Human Resources and Investor Relations at Deutz, is going to stand for election.

As Gigaset announced on 13 April, Rudi Lamprecht is to be elected to the Supervisory Board at the next Annual General Meeting. Susanne Klöß was also suggested for the Supervisory Board by the phone maker. The former Siemens board member and the consultant are to stand at the AGM in the summer as successors to Rudolf Falter and Hubertus Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, who are no longer continuing.

Karl Heinz Midunsky has resigned his Supervisory Board post at Hanover Re as of the end of this year's Annual General Meeting on 3 May. The Supervisory Board has therefore proposed that consultant Andrea Pollak be elected to the Supervisory Board as shareholder representative until the end of the annual general meeting in 2012.

Herbert Lütkestratkötter is resigning from his post at the Hochtief General Meeting on 12 May. The move was “in the best of mutual agreement,” said the Essen construction company on 10 April. As his successor as CEO the Supervisory Board appointed Frank Stieler. Burkhard Lohr also made use of his special termination rights. The CFO is leaving the Group on 18 October.

The election of Hauke ​​Stars is being proposed to Klöckner & Co's shareholders at the annual shareholders’ meeting on 20 May in Düsseldorf, since Supervisory Board member Frank H. Lakerveld is no longer a candidate for another term. The Duisburg steel trader also wants to propose the re-election of current supervisory board chairman Dieter H. Vogel and his deputy Michael Rogowski to the Supervisory Board.

At Symrise, Supervisory Board Chairman Andreas Schmid and Sanna Suvanto-Harsaae are not standing for re-election at the AGM on 18 May. Michael Becker and Professor Andrea Pfeifer are to be elected as new members. The future Supervisory Board Chairman is to be member Thomas Rabe.