Supervisory Board

The trusting relationship between Executive and Supervisory Boards is an expression of Dräger's corporate culture of transparency and mutual respect. In the current fiscal year, the Supervisory Board devoted considerable attention to the business situation and perspectives of the Dräger Group.

Senator e. H. Prof. Dr. h. c. mult. Nikolaus Schweickart (chairman)

​Lawyer with his own practice

Other supervisory board memberships:
Membership on statutory supervisory boards:
DAT Deutsch-Atlantische Telegraphen-AG, Bad Homburg (chairman)
Mivera Vermögensanlagen GmbH, Bad Homburg (chairman)
Membership on comparable German or foreign boards:
Economic Advisory Board of Fraport AG, Frankfurt am Main

Siegfrid Kasang (Vice-Chairman)

​Works Council Chairman of Dräger Medical GmbH, Lübeck

Group Works Council Chairman of medical division
Group Works Council Chairman of Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA, Lübeck

Supervisory Board memberships:
Dräger Medical Verwaltungs AG, Lübeck (Vice-Chairman)

Daniel Friedrich

​District secretary of the metalworkers’ union IG Metall Küste, Hamburg


Supervisory Board memberships:
Dräger Medical Verwaltungs AG, Lübeck

Dr. Thorsten Grenz

​Former Chairman of the management team
Veolia Umweltservice GmbH, Hamburg

Supervisory Board memberships:
Drägerwerk Verwaltungs AG, Lübeck

Peter-Maria Grosse

​Works council chairman of Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA, Lübeck

Other supervisory board membership:
Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA, Lübeck

Uwe Lüders

​Chairman of the executive board of L. Possehl & Co. mbH, Lübeck

Other supervisory board memberships:
Membership on statutory supervisory boards of German trading companies:
Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Heidelberg
Membership on comparable German and foreign boards:
Group advisory committee of Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt am Main

Prof. Dr. Klaus Rauscher

​Former chairman of the executive board of Vattenfall Europe AG, Berlin

Other supervisory board memberships:
ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG, Essen
Endi AG, Halle (chairman)

Walter Neundorf

​Officer of Dräger Medical GmbH, Lübeck

Jürgen Peddinghaus

​Self-employed management consultant, Hamburg


Other supervisory board memberships:
Faber-Castell AG, Nuremberg (chairman)
Jungheinrich AG, Hamburg (chairman)
May Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Erftstadt (chairman)
Zwilling J.A. Henckels AG, Solingen

Thomas Rickers

​1st Delegate of the metalworkers’ union IG Metall, Lübeck/Wismar, Lübeck

Supervisory Board memberships:
Dräger Medical Verwaltungs AG, Lübeck
Wadan Yards, Wismar

Ulrike Tinnefeld

​Works Council Vice Chairwoman of Dräger Safety AG & Co. KG, Lübeck

General Works Council Chairwoman of Dräger Safety AG & Co. KG
Group Works Council Vice Chairwoman of Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA, Lübeck

Other supervisory board membership:
Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA, Lübeck

Dr. Reinhard Zinkann

​Managing partner of Miele & Cie. KG, Gütersloh

Other supervisory board memberships:
Membership on statutory supervisory boards of German trading companies:
Falke KGaA, Schmallenberg (chairman)
Membership on comparable German and foreign boards:
Advisory committee of Nobilia-Werke J. Stickling GmbH & Co. KG, Verl
Advisory committee of Gebr. Röchling KG, Mannheim
Advisory committee of Unternehmensgruppe Graf von Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff GmbH & Co. KG Holding, Bad Driburg
Advisory committee of Viessmann-Werke GmbH & Co. KG, Allendorf
Federal advisory committee of Allianz Dresdner Bank AG, Düsseldorf
Advisory committee of Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty AG, Munich