Supervisory Board & Economic Advisory

Fraport is a joint-stock company. The members of the Supervisory board are elected as representatives of the shareholders and the workforce. Business development and company strategy are under the watchful eye of the members of the Supervisory Board.

Furthermore members of the board of directors of Fraport AG are chairmen of the supervisory boards of some of the company's affiliates.

The twenty-member-strong Supervisory Board of Fraport AG is made up of

  • three representatives from the federal state of Hesse,
  • one from the City of Frankfurt,
  • six private shareholders and
  • ten employee representatives.
Chairman:

Michael Boddenberg
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Fraport AG,
Former Minister of State of Hesse, member of the State Parliament of Hesse

Members:

Mathias Venema  
Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Fraport AG,
Trade union secretary of ver.di

Devrim Arslan
Assistant to the executive board of the komba trade union


Karina Becker-Lienemann
Chairwoman of the Works Council of Frankfurt Airport Retail GmbH & Co. KG,
Chairwoman of the Group Works Council of Gebr. Heinemann SE & Co. KG

Dr. Bastian Bergerhoff
City Treasurer and department head for finance,
investments, and personnel of the City of Frankfurt

Ines Born

Trade union secretary, Department coordinator at ver.di headquarters, dept. 3

Hakan Bölükmese
Chairman of the Works Council at Fraport AG

Kathrin Dahnke
Independent corporate consultant

Dr. Margarete Haase
Independent corporate consultant

Harry Hohmeister
Member of the Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG

Mike Josef
Lord Mayor of the City of Frankfurt am Main

Frank-Peter Kaufmann
Pensioner, independent corporate consultant

Sidar Kaya
Commercial assistant and
Works Council member at FraGround Fraport Ground Handling Professionals GmbH

Lothar Klemm
Former Minister of State of Hesse, independent attorney

Karin Knappe
Works Council member at Fraport AG and
Chairwoman of the Group Works Council of Fraport AG

Felix Kreutel
Senior Vice President Real Estate and Energy at Fraport AG

Matthias Pöschko
Firefighter and Works Council member at Fraport AG

Sonja Wärntges
CEO of Branicks Group AG (formerly DIC Asset AG)

Prof. Dr.-lng. Katja Windt
Member of the Managing Board of SMS group GmbH

Özgür Yalcinkaya
Commercial assistant and
Chairman of the Works Council of FraGround Fraport Ground Handling Professionals GmbH

Economic Advisory


The task of the Economic Advisory Board is to advise and support the Executive Board of Fraport AG on all key issues regarding developments in the economy and in air transportation as well as significant areas of business policy.

Members are normally appointed by the Executive Board for three years.
The Executive Board takes part in the meetings of the Economic Advisory Board, and the Chairman of the Supervisory Board is invited to join the discussions as a permanent guest.

Chairman:
Wolfgang Kirsch

  

Gerald Braunberger
Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Heike Eckert
Member of the Management Board  Deutsche Börse AG

Bernd Eulitz
CEO Messer SE & Co. KGaA

Tanja Gönner
Director General, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e. V. (BDI)

Thomas Groß
Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale (Helaba)

Susanne Haus
President Chamber of Crafts Frankfurt-Rhein-Main

Prof. Dr. Michael Hüther
Director and Member of the Management Board, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln

Dr. Detlef Kayser
Director and Member of the Management Board, Deutsche Lufthansa AG

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anke Rita Kaysser-Pyzalla
Chief Executive Officer, German Aerospace Center

Dr. Marcus Kuhnert
Member of the Executive Board, Merck KGaA

Sabine Nallinger
Chairman Stiftung KlimaWirtschaft

Ralf Pütmann
Chairman Boards&More GmbH

Gordon Riske
Managing Director GRBR Services GmbH

Tim Scharwath
Director and Member of the Management Board, Deutsche Post DHL Group

Arndt Schoenemann
Chief Executive Officer, DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH

Martin Scholich
Global Advisory Digital Transformation & People Leader,   PricewaterhouseCoopers

Raoul Spanger
Co-CEO Gebr. Heinemann SE & Co. KG

Stephan Sturm
Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors,  Heinz Hermann Thiele Familienstiftung

Melanie Wiese
SCFO Deutsche Beteiligungs AG  

Prof. Dr. Jens Weidmann
Chairman of the Supervisory Board Commerzbank AG

Gerhard Wiesheu
Spokesman of the Executive Board  B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. Aktiengesellschaft

  

Permanent Guest:

Michael Boddenberg
Former Finance Minister, State of Hesse, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Fraport AG

Further Information

Fraport Group and the Management