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Hermann Josef Strenger
Honorary Chairman, Leverkusen
 
Members of the Supervisory Board hold or held offices as members of the supervisory board or a comparable supervising body of the corporations listed (as at December 31, 2005 or the date on which they ceased to be members of the Supervisory Board of Bayer AG):
 
Dr. Manfred Schneider
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Leverkusen
* December 21, 1938
Allianz AG
DaimlerChrysler AG
Linde AG (Chairman)
Metro AG
RWE AG
TUI AG
 
Erhard Gipperich
(until January 31, 2006)
Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board;
Chairman of the Bayer Group Works Council,
Leverkusen
* April 30, 1942
Baywoge GmbH
 
Dr. Paul Achleitner
Member of the Board of Management
of Allianz AG, Munich
* September 28, 1956
Allianz Global Investors AG
Allianz Immobilien GmbH
MAN AG (until June 18, 2005)
RWE AG
 
Dr. Josef Ackermann
Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors
(effective February 1, 2006) and Chairman
of the Group Executive Committee of
Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main
* February 7, 1948
Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Linde AG
Siemens AG
 
Andreas Becker
(effective April 29, 2005)
Chairman of the Works Council
of H.C. Starck, Laufenburg
* March 1, 1959
H.C. Starck GmbH
 
Karl-Josef Ellrich
Chairman of the Works Council of Bayer AG,
Dormagen
(Chairman of the Bayer Group Works Council
effective February 10, 2006), Leverkusen
* October 5, 1949
Bayer CropScience AG
 
Dr. Thomas Fischer
(effective October 1, 2005)
Graduate Engineer, Dormagen
* August 27, 1955
Bayer MaterialScience AG
 
Thomas Hellmuth
Agricultural Engineer, Langenfeld
* May 29, 1956
 
Prof. Dr.-Ing. e. h. Hans-Olaf Henkel
Honorary Professor at the University of Mannheim, Berlin
* March 14, 1940
Continental AG
DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG
SMS GmbH
Brambles Industries
Orange SA
Ringier AG
 
Gregor Jüsten
(effective February 1, 2006)
Member of the Bayer Works Council, Leverkusen
* December 13, 1948
 
Dr. rer. pol. Dipl.-Kfm. Klaus Kleinfeld
(effective April 29, 2005)
President and Chief Executive
Officer of Siemens AG, Munich
* November 6, 1957
Alcoa Inc.
Citigroup Inc. (effective July 18, 2005)
 
Dr. h. c. Martin Kohlhaussen
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt am Main
* November 6, 1935
Heraeus Holding GmbH
Hochtief AG (Chairman)
Intermediate Capital Group
(until June 2005)
National Pensions Reserve Fund
(until April 2005)
Schering AG
ThyssenKrupp AG
Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH
 
John Christian Kornblum
Chairman of Lazard & Co. GmbH, Berlin
* February 6, 1943
Motorola Inc.
ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG
 
Petra Kronen
Chairwoman of the Works Council of Bayer AG, Uerdingen
* August 22, 1964
Bayer MaterialScience AG
 
Dr. Heinrich von Pierer
(until April 29, 2005)
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG, Munich
* January 26, 1941
Deutsche Bank AG
(effective May 18, 2005)
Hochtief AG
Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG
ThyssenKrupp AG
(effective January 21, 2005)
Volkswagen AG
 
Wolfgang Schenk
(until September 30, 2005)
Graduate Engineer, Leverkusen
* September 24, 1953
 
Hubertus Schmoldt
Chairman of the German Mine,
Chemical and Power Workers’ Union, Hannover
* January 14, 1945
BHW AG
Deutsche BP AG
DOW Olefinverbund GmbH
E.ON AG
RAG AG
RAG Coal International
 
Dieter Schulte
Former Chairman of the German Unions Federation, Duisburg
* January 13, 1940
 
Dr.-Ing. Ekkehard D. Schulz
(effective April 29, 2005)
Chairman of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp AG, Düsseldorf
* July 24, 1941
AXA Konzern AG
Commerzbank AG
Deutsche Bahn AG
MAN AG (Chairman effective June 3, 2005)
RAG AG (Vice Chairman)
TUI AG
ThyssenKrupp Automotive AG
Thyssenkrupp Elevator AG
(Chairman effective October 26, 2005)
Thyssen Services AG
ThyssenKrupp Steel Beteiligungen AG
(until December 9, 2005)
 
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. e. h. Jürgen Weber
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG,
Frankfurt am Main
* October 17, 1941
Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG
Deutsche Bank AG
Deutsche Post AG
Thomas Cook AG
(Chairman until October 31, 2005)
Voith AG
Loyalty Partner GmbH (Chairman)
Tetra Laval Group
 
Siegfried Wendlandt
North Rhine District Secretary of the German Mine, Chemical and Power Workers’ Union,
Düsseldorf
* July 27, 1947
Baywoge GmbH
HT Troplast AG
Rütgers AG (until June 2005)
 
Reinhard Wendt
(until April 29, 2005)
Chairman of the Works Council of Wolff Walsrode AG, Walsrode
* March 6, 1945
Wolff Walsrode AG
(until April 30, 2005)
 
Thomas de Win
Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board
(effective March 2, 2006);
Chairman of the Bayer Central Works Council,
Leverkusen
* November 21, 1958
Bayer MaterialScience AG
(effective July 19, 2005)
 
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker
President of the German Research Association (DFG), Bonn
* July 26, 1941
KWS Saat AG
Medigene AG (Chairman)
Wacker Chemie AG
(effective September 26, 2005)
 
Dr. Hermann Wunderlich
(until April 29, 2005)
Former Vice Chairman of the company’s Board
of Management, Odenthal
* April 29, 1932
 
 Committees of the Supervisory Board of Bayer AG as at December 31, 2005
 Presidial Committee/
 Mediation Committee
Schneider (Chairman), Achleitner, Gipperich, Schmoldt
 
 Audit Committee Kohlhaussen (Chairman), Fischer, Henkel, Schneider, Wendlandt, de Win
 Human Resources
 Committee
Schneider (Chairman), Ellrich, Kohlhaussen, Kronen
 
 
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