Bayer AG - Annual Report 2006 - Supervisory Board

Bayer Group

Supervisory Board

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, 2006 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 SE (until October 31, 2006)
DaimlerChrysler AG
Linde AG (Chairman)
Metro AG
RWE AG
TUI AG

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

Dr. Paul Achleitner
Member of the Board of Management of Allianz SE, Munich
* September 28, 1956
Allianz Deutschland AG
Allianz Elementar Lebensversicherungs-AG (Chairman)
Allianz Elementar Versicherungs-AG (Chairman)
Allianz Global Investors AG
Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG
RWE AG

Dr. Josef Ackermann
Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors of Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main
* February 7, 1948
Deutsche Lufthansa AG (until June 30, 2006)
Linde AG (until June 30, 2006)
Siemens AG

Andreas Becker
(until February 1, 2007)
Chairman of the Works Council of H.C. Starck, Laufenburg
* March 1, 1959
H.C. Starck GmbH (until June 30, 2006)

Willy Beumann
(effective February 20, 2007)
Chairman of the Works Council of the Wuppertal site of Bayer AG
* April 12, 1956
Bayer HealthCare AG

Karl-Josef Ellrich
Chairman of the Dormagen Works Council of Bayer AG
Chairman of the Bayer Group Works Council (effective February 10, 2006), Leverkusen
* October 5, 1949
Bayer CropScience AG

Dr. Thomas Fischer
Graduate Engineer, Dormagen
* August 27, 1955
Bayer MaterialScience AG

Erhard Gipperich
(until January 31, 2006)
Former Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Former Chairman of the Bayer Central and Group Works Councils, Leverkusen
* April 30, 1942

Peter Hausmann
(effective April 28, 2006)
North Rhine District Secretary of the German Mine, Chemical and Power Workers’ Union, Düsseldorf
* February 13, 1954
Procter & Gamble Manufacturing GmbH

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
Brambles Industries Ltd.
Continental AG
DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG
EPG AG (effective May 22, 2006)
Orange SA
Ringier AG
SMS GmbH

Reiner Hoffmann
(effective October 11, 2006)
Deputy General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), Brussels
* May 30, 1955
SASOL Germany GmbH

Gregor Jüsten
(effective February 1, 2006)
Chemical Production Technician, Member of the Leverkusen Works Council of Bayer
* December 13, 1948

Dr. rer. pol. Klaus Kleinfeld
President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG, Munich
* November 6, 1957
Alcoa Inc.
Citigroup Inc.

Dr. h. c. Martin Kohlhaussen
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt am Main
* November 6, 1935
Hochtief AG (Chairman)
Schering AG (until September 13, 2006)
ThyssenKrupp AG

John Christian Kornblum
Chairman of Lazard & Co. GmbH, Berlin
* February 6, 1943
Motorola Inc.
ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG (until November 30, 2006)

Petra Kronen
Chairwoman of the Uerdingen Works Council of Bayer AG
* August 22, 1964
Bayer MaterialScience AG

Hubertus Schmoldt
Chairman of the German Mine, Chemical and Power Workers’ Union, Hannover
* January 14, 1945
Deutsche BP AG
DOW Olefinverbund GmbH
E.ON AG
RAG AG
RAG Coal International

Dieter Schulte
(until September 18, 2006)
Former Chairman of the German Unions Federation, Duisburg
* January 13, 1940

Dr.-Ing. Ekkehard D. Schulz
Chairman of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp AG, Düsseldorf
* July 24, 1941
AXA Konzern AG
Commerzbank AG (until March 31, 2006)
Deutsche Bahn AG (until June 30, 2006)
MAN AG (Chairman)
RAG AG (Vice Chairman)
RAG Beteiligungs-AG (Vice Chairman effective September 14, 2006)
RWE AG (effective April 13, 2006)
ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG (Chairman)
ThyssenKrupp Services AG (Chairman)
ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG (Chairman effective October 1, 2006)

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 (Chairman)
LP Holding GmbH (Chairman)
Tetra Laval Group
Voith AG
Willy Bogner GmbH & Co. KGaA (effective May 31, 2006)

Siegfried Wendlandt
(until April 28, 2006)
Former North Rhine District Secretary of the German Mine, Chemical and Power Workers’ Union, Düsseldorf
* July 27, 1947

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker
Former President of the German Research Foundation, Bonn
Secretary General of the European Research Council (ERC), Brussels
* July 26, 1941
KWS Saat AG
Medigene AG (Chairman)
Wacker Chemie AG

Standing committees of the Supervisory Board of Bayer AG as at December 31, 2006
Presidial Committee/Mediation Committee	Schneider (Chairman), Achleitner, Schmoldt, de Win
Audit Committee	Kohlhaussen (Chairman), Fischer, Hausmann, Henkel, Schneider, de Win
Human Resources Committee	Schneider (Chairman), Ellrich, Kohlhaussen, Kronen