Johannes Teyssen, the former CEO of E.ON, will become the new chairman of Lufthansa's supervisory board next year.
According to a statement released by Lufthansa on Tuesday, Teyssen will be proposed to the annual general meeting on May 12, 2026, for election to the supervisory board, after which he is to be appointed its chairman. This would see him succeed Karl-Ludwig Kley. The airline group noted that Teyssen introduced himself to the supervisory board on Tuesday. The 65-year-old lawyer and economist led the energy company E.ON SE from 2010 to 2021.
Kley has chaired Lufthansa's supervisory board since 2017. Trained as a lawyer, he served as Lufthansa's chief financial officer from 1998 to 2006, before moving on to become CEO of the Darmstadt-based pharmaceutical company Merck. At the last annual general meeting in May, Kley publicly announced that he would not seek re-election to Lufthansa's supervisory board in 2026. The original plan had been for former Airbus CEO Tom Enders to succeed him, as Kley confirmed at the time. However, Enders stepped down from his post on the Lufthansa supervisory board earlier this year.
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Karl-Ludwig Kley is a German businessperson who has been at the head of 7 different companies. He occupies the position of Chairman-Supervisory Board for E.ON SE, Chairman-Supervisory Board for Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Co-Managing Director at Glasbau Hahn GmbH. Dr. Kley is also on the board of Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften eV and Chairman-Management Board at Baden Badener Unternehmergespräche, Vice President for Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V., Member-Executive Board at E. Merck KG and Vice President at Verband der Chemischen Industrie eV.
In his past career Dr. Kley was Chairman-Executive Board at Merck KGaA, Head-Corporate Finance & Investor Relations at Bayer AG and Chief Financial Officer at Bayer Holding Ltd. (a subsidiary of Bayer AG), Chairman-Supervisory Board for Lufthansa AirPlus Servicekarten GmbH, Chairman-Supervisory Board of 1. FC Köln GmbH & Co. KGaA, Director-Management Board at KG Allgemeine Leasing GmbH & Co. and Head-Pharmaceutical Division at Bayer SpA.
Dr. Kley received a doctorate, a graduate degree and a graduate degree from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Deutsche Lufthansa AG is a Germany-based aviation company, which provides passenger and cargo air transportation services worldwide. The Company's segments include Passenger Airlines, Logistics, MRO and Catering. The Passenger Airlines segment includes Lufthansa Airlines, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings. The Logistics segment includes the airfreight container management specialist Jettainer group, the time:matters Group, which specialises in urgent shipments, the subsidiary Heyworld, which specialises in tailored solutions for the e-commerce sector, CB Customs Broker, the customs and customs clearance specialist, and the Lufthansa Group’s 50% stake in the cargo airline AeroLogic. The MRO segment, represented by the Lufthansa Technik group, is a global provider of maintenance, repair and overhaul services for civil and commercial aircraft. The Catering segment consists of traditional catering and onboard retail along with food commerce activities.
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