Eggert Voscherau

Eggert Voscherau (born May 11, 1943 in Hamburg ) was a member of the board of BASF SE from 1996 to 2008 and its deputy chairman from 2003 to 2008 .

Life

Eggert Voscherau is the brother of Henning Voscherau , son of the actor Carl Voscherau and nephew of the popular actor Walter Scherau (actually Walter Voscherau ). His wife Sarah is from England.

Voscherau attended business school and completed a commercial apprenticeship at Unilever . In 1969 he joined BASF Aktiengesellschaft. In 1981 he became a member of the executive board of BASF Brasileira SA. In 1987 he was appointed head of the crop protection division at BASF Aktiengesellschaft. In 1991 he became head of North America in the Consumer Products segment. In 1994 he also became head of Latin America North. In 1996 he was appointed a member of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF Aktiengesellschaft. In 1998 he became head of Department II with the areas of pharmaceuticals, crop protection, fine chemicals , main laboratory and the Europe region. From 2003 until his retirement age he was Deputy Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF Aktiengesellschaft. Most recently he was Labor Director at BASF and Site Manager for the Ludwigshafen am Rhein plant . On April 30, 2009 he was elected Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE. He held this position until he left on May 2, 2014.

Eggert Voscherau was also a member of the Rürup and Hartz Commissions and from 2002 to 2004 President of the Association of the European Chemical Industry. From 2005 to 2013 he was President of the Federal Chemicals Employers' Association ; his successor was Margret Suckale . He is also Vice President of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA).

Other functions

• 2000–2009 Liability Association of German Industry VaG ( HDI ), Hanover
• 2002–2007 Chairman of BASF Schwarzheide GmbH , Schwarzheide
• 2003–2009 member of the supervisory board of Talanx AG
• 2003–2006 spokesman for the "Future Rhine-Neckar Triangle " initiative
• 2003–2006 member of the Council for Sustainable Development
• 2005–2007 Chairman of the Board of Directors of BASF Antwerpen NV
• 2006–2008 member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bahn
• 2006–2009 member of the supervisory board of Nord Stream AG , Zug, Switzerland ( Baltic Sea pipeline )
• -2009 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CropEnergies AG ( Südzucker Group)
• 2008–2010 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Carl Zeiss AG

Honors

• 2006: Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Mannheim
• 2008: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 2008: MRN Award

Honorary positions

• Honorary member of the board of the association Zukunft Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar

Web links

• Article in Der Berliner Republik: Competition instead of Wagenburg (issue 4/2003)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} BASF press release P-13-261  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated May 8, 2013.  
2. ↑ Press release (PDF) ( Memento of the original dated November 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the association, June 7, 2013, accessed on June 9, 2013. 
3. ↑ nord-stream.com: Management Nord Stream AG ( Memento of the original dated February 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 30, 2008).  
4. ↑ Carl Zeiss AG press release: New Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Carl Zeiss AG , Oberkochen, October 10, 2008 (accessed December 30, 2008).
5. ↑ Awarding of an honorary doctorate to Eggert Voscherau ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Mannheim, ( PDF file, 44 kB).  
6. ^ BAVC press release; Federal Cross of Merit for Eggert Voscherau ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 85 kB), Wiesbaden, May 29, 2008 (accessed December 30, 2008). 
7. ↑ Newsletter of the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 316 kB), edition 9/2008 (accessed on March 11, 2011).  
8. ↑ http://www.mrn.com/vorstand  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .