Wacker Chemie AG Supervisory Board Appoints Christian Hartel as the company's Future CEO. Current CEO Rudolf Staudigl To retire after the 2021 annual shareholders' meeting as of the same date, the supervisory board appoints executive board member Christian Hartel as the company's NEW PRESIDENT & CEO. Dr. Christian Hartel studied chemistry at the University of Constance. After earning his doctorate at the universities of Geneva and Frankfurt am Main, he began his professional career at management consultants Bain & Company in 2000, moving to Corporate Development at WACKER in 2003. Dr. Rudolf Staudigl studied chemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich and obtained a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in chemistry in 1981. After research posts at Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA) and then Ludwig-Maximilians University, he joined Wacker Siltronic AG in 1983. He became vice president of Operations at Wacker Siltronic Corporation in Portland (Oregon, USA) in 1989 and president a year later. Angela Wörl studied law at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. After occupying various positions at courts, public authorities and legal firms in Germany and the USA, she joined WACKER's Legal department in 1995. In 2003, she assumed responsibility for international HR assignments and HR development at WACKER's HR corporate department. After further management roles in HR at the company, Wörl left WACKER temporarily in 2011 for family reasons, spending almost three years in South Korea and China.