OREANDA-NEWS. There are to be personnel changes on the supervisory board of Robert Bosch GmbH when its new term starts on March 22, 2013. Following a five-year tenure on the board, the shareholder representative Professor Dr. Hermut Kormann will be resigning for age reasons. His successor will be the economist Professor Dr. Beatrice Weder Di Mauro. In addition to her academic work and various offices, Weder Di Mauro was previously a member of the German Council of Economic Experts.

 The employee representatives Daniel Mьller and Wolf Jьrgen Rцder will also be leaving. Their places will be taken by Christiane Benner, a managing partner on the executive board of Industriegewerkschaft Metall, and Kerstin Mai, the chairperson of the works council of Robert Bosch Car Multimedia GmbH as well as a member of the combined works council of Robert Bosch GmbH. This will bring the number of women on the board to four. The supervisory board is made up of ten shareholder representatives and ten employee representatives.

 “The shareholders and the supervisory board would like to thank Professor Dr. Hermut Kormann, Daniel Mьller, and Wolf Jьrgen Rцder for their loyal collaboration over the past few years,” says Franz Fehrenbach, chairman of the supervisory board of Robert Bosch GmbH. “At the same time, we wish Professor Dr. Beatrice Weder Di Mauro, Christiane Benner, and Kerstin Mai every success in their new tasks.”