The Annual Shareholders' Meeting of Wacker Chemie AG approved Patrick Cramer is a new member of the Supervisory Board. He succeeds Franz-Josef Kortüm, a long-standing member of the Supervisory Board who stepped down at the end of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting for reasons of age. Cramer has a doctorate in biochemistry and is a former professor and dean at Ludwig-Maxi­milians-Universität in Munich.

He currently works as director of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen. Cramer will take up his new assignment as president of the Max Planck Society in Munich at the end of June. The Supervisory Board's proposal to elect Prof. Andreas H. Biagosch, Dr. Gregor Biebl, Matthias Biebl, Prof. Patrick Cramer, Ann-Sophie Wacker, Dr. Peter-Alexander Wacker, Prof. Anna Weber and Dr. Susanne Weiss to the Supervisory Board until the 2028 Annual Shareholders' Meeting was adopted.