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7
The composition of the Supervisory Board
changed as follows during the financial year 2004:
At the end of the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting
on 13 May 2004, the employee representatives,
Dr. phil. Karin Benz-Overhage, Hans Glas and Ernst
Rehmeier and the shareholder representatives,
Prof. Dr. Bernd Fahrholz and Dr.-Ing. Dieter Soltmann,
ceased to be members of the Supervisory Board.
The Supervisory Board thanked the departing
members for their steadfast contribution over many
years.
In consideration of the age-limit applicable for
the Supervisory Board and for the sake of leadership
continuity, Volker Doppelfeld has not put himself
forward for re-election as Chairman of the Super-
visory Board; he will, however, continue to serve on
the Supervisory Board as a member.
Volker Doppelfeld has been a member of the
Supervisory Board since 1998, as Deputy Chairman
in 1998 and then as Chairman for five years. His
period of office coincides with the BMW Group’s
successful strategy of reorientation which he
helped to shape in his function as Chairman of the
Supervisory Board.The Supervisory Board thanked
Volker Doppelfeld for all of the work performed.
Bertin Eichler (Executive Board member of IG
Metall), Werner Eisgruber (member of the Works
Council for the Dingolfing site) and Anton Ruf (Head
of Technological Integration) were all elected to the
Supervisory Board by the Workers’ Delegates at
a meeting held on 2 March 2004. At the Annual
Shareholders’ Meeting held on13 May 2004, Franz
Haniel (Managing Director of Giesecke& Devrient
GmbH) and Wolfgang Mayrhuber (Chairman of the
Managing Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG) were
elected to the Supervisory Board as shareholder
representatives.
After the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on
13 May 2004, the Supervisory Board appointed
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Joachim Milberg
as the Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Fur-
thermore, the Supervisory Board elected Manfred
Schoch as first Deputy Chairman and Stefan Quandt,
Konrad Gottinger and Dr. Hans-Dietrich Winkhaus
as additional Deputy Chairmen.The newly elected
Presiding Board also acts as the Audit Committee
and the Personnel Committees, both of which were
constituted at the meeting on 13 May 2004.
Munich, 10 March 2005
The Supervisory Board
Joachim Milberg
Chairman