As of the end of Annual Shareholders' Meeting, Rudolf Staudigl (66), President and CEO of Wacker Chemie AG, retired from the company. As already announced, he was succeeded in that position by Christian Hartel (50). Also as of the end of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting, Angela Worl (54) joined the Munich-based chemical company's Executive Board. Thus, the passing of the baton in WACKER's Executive Board went ahead as planned.