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The Supervisory Board appoints, supervises and advices the Management Board and is directly involved in decisions of fundamental importance to the bank. The Chairman of the Supervisory Board coordinates work within the Supervisory Board. The duties, procedures and committees of our Supervisory Board are specified in its Terms of Reference, which are available on our Internet website.
The members representing our shareholders were elected at the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on June 10, 2003, and the members representing our employees were elected on May 8, 2003. The following table shows information on the current members of our Supervisory Board. The information includes their ages as of December 31, 2005, the years in which they were first elected or appointed, the years when their terms expire, their principal occupations and their membership on other companies’ supervisory boards, other nonexecutive boards and other positions.
| Member | Principal occupation | Supervisory board memberships and other directorships |
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| Dr. Rolf-E. Breuer Age: 68 First elected: 2002 Term expires: 2008 |
Chairman of the Supervisory Board | Supervisory board memberships: Bertelsmann AG (until May 2005); Deutsche Börse AG (chairman, until October 2005); E.ON AG; Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A.(until June 2005); Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (until April 2005); Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank Other experience: President of the Association of German Banks (until March 2005); Member of the Administrative Council of the German Financial Supervisory Authority (until March 2005) |
| Dr. Karl-Gerhard Eick Age: 51 Appointed by the court: 2004 Term expires: 2008 |
Deputy Chairman of the board of managing directors of Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn | Supervisory board memberships: DeTe Immobilien Deutsche Telekom Immobilien und Service GmbH; T-Mobile International AG; T-Online International AG; T-Systems Enterprise Services GmbH; T-Systems Business Services GmbH (since December 2005); GMG Generalmietgesellschaft mbH (chairman); Sireo Real Estate Asset Management GmbH (chairman); FC Bayern München AG |
| Heidrun Förster* Age: 58 First elected: 1993 Term expires: 2008 |
Deputy Chairperson of the Supervisory Board; Chairperson of the staff council of Deutsche Bank Privat- und Geschäftskunden AG, Berlin | |
| Ulrich Hartmann Age: 67 First elected: 2003 Term expires: 2008 |
Chairman of the supervisory board of E.ON AG, Düsseldorf |
Supervisory board memberships: Deutsche Lufthansa AG; Hochtief AG; IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG (chairman); Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft Other experience: ARCELOR; Henkel KGaA (member of the shareholders’ committee) |
| Sabine Horn* Age: 44 First elected: 1998 Term expires: 2008 |
Deutsche Bank AG Assistant Vice President |
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| Rolf Hunck* Age: 60 First elected: 2003 Term expires: 2008 |
Deutsche Bank AG | Supervisory board memberships: Deutsche Bank Trust AG; Fibula Finanz AG; HCI Capital AG (since January 2005) Other experience: Kühne-Stiftung, Switzerland |
| Sir Peter Job Age: 64 Appointed by the court: 2001 Term expires: 2008 |
Supervisory board memberships: Bertelsmann AG (until May 2005) Other experience: Schroders Plc; Tibco Software Inc.; Instinet Inc. (until December 2005); Shell Transport and Trading Plc (until July 2005); Royal Dutch Shell (since July 2005) | |
| Prof. Dr. Henning Kagermann Age: 58 First elected: 2000 Term expires: 2008 |
Chairman and CEO of SAP AG, Walldorf | Supervisory board memberships: DaimlerChrysler Services AG; Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft |
| Ulrich Kaufmann* Age: 59 First elected: 1988 Term expires: 2008 |
Chairman of the staff council of Deutsche Bank AG, Düsseldorf | |
| Peter Kazmierczak* Age: 47 First elected: 2002 Term expires: 2008 |
Chairperson of the staff council of Deutsche Bank AG, Essen | |
| Prof. Dr. Paul Kirchhof Age: 62 Appointed by the court: 2004 Term expires: 2008 |
Professor, Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg | Supervisory board memberships: Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG |
| Henriette Mark* Age: 48 First elected: 2003 Term expires: 2008 |
Chairperson of the staff council of Deutsche Bank AG, Munich and Southern Bavaria | |
| Margret Mönig-Raane* Age: 57 First elected: 1996 Term expires: 2008 |
Vice President of the Unified Services Union, Berlin |
Supervisory board memberships: KarstadtQuelle-AG (since 2005) Other nonexecutive directorships: BHW Holding AG (member of the advisory board); Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) (administrative council) |
| Prof. Dr. jur. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Heinrich von Pierer Age: 64 First elected: 2005 Term expires: 2008 |
Chairman of the supervisory board of Siemens AG, Munich | Supervisory board memberships: Hochtief AG; Münchener Rückversicherungs-Geselllschaft Aktiengesellschaft; ThyssenKrupp AG; Volkswagen AG; Bayer AG (until April 2005) |
| Gabriele Platscher* Age: 48 First elected: 2003 Term expires: 2008 |
Deutsche Bank Privat- und Geschäftskunden AG | Supervisory board memberships: Deutsche Bank Privat- und Geschäftskunden Aktiengesellschaft, BVV Versicherungsverein des Bankgewerbes a.G. |
| Karin Ruck* Age: 40 First elected: 2003 Term expires: 2008 |
Deutsche Bank AG | Supervisory board memberships: Deutsche Bank Privat- und Geschäftskunden AG |
| Tilman Todenhöfer Age: 62 Appointed by the court: 2001 Term expires: 2008 |
Managing Partner of Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG, Stuttgart | Supervisory board memberships: Robert Bosch GmbH; Robert Bosch Int. Beteiligungen AG (president of the board of administration); Carl Zeiss AG (chairman); Schott AG (chairman) |
| Dipl.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Jürgen Weber Age: 64 First elected: 2003 Term expires: 2008 |
Chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Cologne | Supervisory board memberships: Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG; Bayer AG; Deutsche Post AG; Thomas Cook AG (chairman, until October 2005); Voith AG; LP Holding GmbH (chairman); Tetra Laval Group |
| Dipl.-Ing. Albrecht Woeste Age: 70 First elected: 1993 Term expires: 2008 |
Chairman of the Shareholders’ Committee of Henkel KGaA Düsseldorf | Supervisory board memberships: Henkel KGaA (chairman); Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG Other nonexecutive directorships: IKB Deutsche Industriebank (member of the advisory board, until September 2005); R. Woeste & Co. GmbH & Co. KG (chairman of the advisory board) |
| Leo Wunderlich* Age: 56 First elected: 2003 Term expires: 2008 |
Chairman of the staff council of Deutsche Bank | |
| * | Employee-elected member of the Supervisory Board. |
Dr. rer. oec. Karl-Hermann Baumann was a member of the Supervisory Board until May 18, 2005. Prof. Dr. jur. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Heinrich von Pierer was elected to the Supervisory Board for the remainder of the term of office. Klaus Funk was a member of the Supervisory Board until February 1, 2006. Peter Kazmierczak, who was first elected in 2002 and resigned in 2003, followed him as his substitute for the remainder of the term of office.
Our Supervisory Board has determined that a sufficient number of Supervisory Board members are independent according to No. 5.4.2 German Corporate Governance Code.
