English eShop Supervisory Board Homepage Company About Sartorius Supervisory Board Supervisory Board of Sartorius AG The Supervisory Board monitors and advises the Executive Board. The Supervisory Board consists of twelve members; as stipulated by the German codetermination law governing stock corporations, half of the members are made up of shareholders and half of employees’ representatives. The Supervisory Board is directly involved in making the decisions of fundamental importance for the company. Together with the Executive Board, the Supervisory Board agrees on the Group’s strategic focus and regularly discusses the status of the ongoing execution of business strategy. Dr. Lothar Kappich Chairman Dipl.-Oekonom (Graduate Economist) | Hamburg, Germany Member of the Supervisory Board since April 2007 Download CV Download Photo Supervisory Board Manfred Zaffke Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board Dipl. Volkswirt (Graduate Political Economist) | Osterode am Harz, Germany First Authorized Representative of the German Metalworkers’ Union (IG Metall) branch office in the Southern Lower Saxony-Harz region in Northeim, Germany Member of the Supervisory Board since March 2014 Download CV Annette Becker Personalfachkauffrau (HR Specialist) | Göttingen, Germany Chairwoman of the Employees’ Council of Sartorius Corporate Administration GmbH in Göttingen, Chairwoman of the Group Employees’ Council of Sartorius AG in Göttingen, Germany Member of the Supervisory Board since September 2002 Download CV Prof. David Raymond Ebsworth B.Sc in Chemistry and German, Ph.D. in Comparative Industrial Relations | Overath, Germany Consultant for a number of healthcare companies and financial investors Member of the Supervisory Board since January 2020 Download CV Dr. Daniela Favoccia Doktor in Rechtswissenschaften (Doctor of Law) | Frankfurt am Main, Germany Attorney and partner of the Hengeler Mueller partnership of lawyers, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Member of the Supervisory Board since April 2017 Download CV Petra Kirchhoff Dipl.-Volkswirtin (Graduate Political Economist) | Göttingen, Germany Head of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations, Sartorius Corporate Administration GmbH in Göttingen, Germany Member of the Supervisory Board since October 2010 Download CV Karoline Kleinschmidt Dipl.-Sozialwirtin (Graduate Social Manager) | Hanover, Germany First Authorized Representative – IG Metall Alfeld-Hameln-Hildesheim Member of the Supervisory Board since April 2012 Download CV Dietmar Müller Betriebswirt (Business Economist) | Gleichen, Germany Chairman of the Employees’ Council of Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH in Göttingen as well as a member of the Group Employees‘ Council of Sartorius AG Member of the Supervisory Board since May 2020 Download CV Ilke Hildegard Panzer M.Sc. in Engineering, Computer and Systems Engineering | Fredonia, Wisconsin, USA Chief Executive Officer of Assurance Laboratories LLC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Member of the Supervisory Board since April 2017 Download CV Hermann Jens Ritzau Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany Member and Chairman of the Employees’ Council of Sartorius Lab Instruments GmbH & Co. KG as well as a member of the Group Employees‘ Council of Sartorius AG Member of the Supervisory Board since March 2021 Download CV Prof. Dr. Thomas Scheper Dipl.-Chemiker (Graduate Chemist) | Hanover, Germany University professor and head of the Institute of Technical Chemistry at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover, Germany Member of the Supervisory Board since April 2012 Download CV Prof. Dr. Klaus Rüdiger Trützschler Dipl.-Wirtschaftsmathematiker (business mathematics) and Dipl.-Mathematiker (mathematics) | Essen, Germany Member of the Supervisory Board since November 2011 Download CV Supervisory Board Rules of Procedure For Sartorius AG PDF | 116.5 KB Download Individual Meeting Attendance of the Supervisory Board Members 2020 PDF | 25.6 KB Download Shareholders' Meeting Committees of the Supervisory Board Executive Task Committee Dr. Lothar Kappich (Chairman) Annette Becker Prof. Dr. Klaus Ruediger Truetzschler Manfred Zaffke Conciliation Committee Dr. Lothar Kappich (Chairman) Annette Becker Prof. Dr. Klaus Ruediger Truetzschler Manfred Zaffke Audit Committee Prof. Dr. Klaus Ruediger Truetzschler (Chairman) Dr. Lothar Kappich Dietmar Müller Manfred Zaffke Nomination Committee Dr. Lothar Kappich (Chairman) Dr. Daniela Favoccia Prof. Dr. Klaus Ruediger Truetzschler More Information Newsroom Learn More Investor Relations Learn More Management Learn More Sign Up for Newsletter General Information Imprint Disclaimer Terms & Conditions Legal Documents Patents and Trademarks Data Protection Cookie Policy Declaration of Consent Company About Sartorius Career Investor Relations Newsroom Sartorius Blogs Exhibition | Conferences Contact © 2021 Sartorius AG