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Supervisory Board

The Supervisory Board advises and monitors dena’s Management Board.

The Supervisory Board at dena has advisory and supervisory functions. It ensures compliance with the statutory provisions by dena’s Management Board and the alignment of business activities with the company’s purpose and sustainability goals.

The Supervisory Board is composed in accordance with the German One-Third Employee Participation Act and consists of nine members. 

Six members are elected by the shareholders’ meeting on the proposal of the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action (BMWK) in agreement with the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV), the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) and the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL).

An employee representative was elected to the Supervisory Board for the first time in October 2023. It consists of three members of the dena staff. ft. 

Chair of the Supervisory Board

  • Stefan Rouenhoff

    Stefan Rouenhoff

    Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

  • Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven

    Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven

    Member of the Management Board of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

  • Martina Englhardt-Kopf

    Martina Englhardt-Kopf

    Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity

  • Helmut Schönenberger

    Dr. Helmut Schönenberger

    Managing Director of Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners GmbH and UnternehmerTUM GmbH

  • Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter

    Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter

    Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety

  • Portraitfoto von Johannes Wieczorek

    Johannes Wieczorek

    Head of Department at the Federal Ministry of Transport (BMV)

  • Beatrice Kuhn

    Beatrice Kuhn

    Employee representative

  • Johanna Meier

    Johanna Meier

    Employee representative

  • Rafael Noster

    Rafael Noster

    Employee representative