Experience:

• 1980-83
  Studied agricultural economics at Kassel-Witzenhausen, majoring in business administration and crop production

• 1988
  Took over the family business in the Uelzen Becken where sugar beet, rape seed, wheat and barley are still farmed today on 285 hectares

• 1997-2004
  Full-time Management Board member of Zucker-Aktiengesellschaft Uelzen-Braunschweig until formation of Nordzucker AG; thereafter, CEO of Zucker-Aktiengesellschaft Uelzen-Braunschweig Holding

• Since 2004
  Executive Board member of Nordzucker Holding AG

• Since 2003
  Executive Board member of RAN (farmers association)

• Since 2006
  Member of the DLG sugar beet committee (German Agricultural Society)

Members of the Supervisory Board

Shareholders' representatives:  

• Hans-Christian Koehler, (Chairman), farmer, Barum

• Helmut Meyer (Deputy Chairman), farmer, Betheln

• Helmut Bleckwenn, farmer, Garmissen

• Gerhard Borchert, farmer, Brome

• Hans Jochen Bosse, farmer, Ohrum

• Dr. Karl-Heinz Engel, Managing Director of Hochwald Nahrungsmittel-Werke GmbH, Riol

• Dr. Clemens Große Frie, Chairman of the Management Board of AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG, Münster/Hannover

• Michael Gerlif, CFO of Lekkerland AG & Co. KG, Frechen

• Dr. Harald Isermeyer, farmer, Vordorf

• Dr. Hans Theo Jachmann, Managing Director of SYNGENTA Agro Germany/Austria, Maintal

• Jochen Johannes Juister, farmer, Nordhastedt

• Rainer Knackstedt, farmer, Dedeleben

• Matts Eskel Rosendahl, consultant, Huddinge

• Andreas Scheffrahn, farmer, Cramme

Representatives of the workforce:

• Dieter Woischke (Deputy Chairman), electrician, Algermissen

• Ulf Gabriel, master electrician, Banteln

• Gerd von Glowczewski, metal worker, Schladen

• Olaf Joern, technician, Uelzen

• Sigrun Krussmann, laboratory assistant, Seelze

• Marie Lohel, electronic technician, fuel 21

• Marina Strootmann, industrial clerk, Braunschweig