Hans Dieter Pötsch

The Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG transferred responsibility for Finance and Controlling at Group level in the Board of Management to Dipl. Wirtsch.-Ing. Hans Dieter Pötsch with effect from September 5, 2003. The Supervisory Board had already appointed Hans Dieter Pötsch as full member of the Board of Management, initially without portfolio, with effect from January 1, 2003. In addition to his other duties, Pötsch has been a member of the Executive Board of Porsche Automobil Holding SE, Stuttgart, Germany, since November 25, 2009, where he also holds the post of Chief Financial Officer. Hans Dieter Pötsch was elected to the Bertelsmann AG Supervisory Board effective May 30, 2011.

Pötsch was born on March 28, 1951 in Traun, near Linz, Austria. He studied industrial engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.

He started his professional career at BMW, where he worked from 1979 until 1987, latterly as Head of Group Controlling. He then moved to Trumpf GmbH & Co. KG in Ditzingen, Germany, as General Manager for Finance and Administration. From 1991 until 1995, Hans Dieter Pötsch was Chairman of the Board of Management of Traub AG, Reichenbach, Germany.

In July 1995, Hans Dieter Pötsch moved to Dürr AG in Stuttgart, Germany, where, until the end of 2002, he was Chairman of the Board of Management and also responsible for the central function 'Quality Management, Planning, Internal Auditing and Company Communications'.

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