The Supervisory Board of thyssenkrupp AG unanimously appointed Guido Kerkhoff as CEO. Kerkhoff obtains a new five-year contract and will thus permanently take over the management of the group. The Supervisory Board of thyssenkrupp AG also unanimously elected Prof. Dr. Bernhard Pellens as Chairman of the Supervisory Board.

Pellens will succeed Prof. Dr. Ulrich Lehner, who resigned from the Supervisory Board at his own request on 31 July 2018. Since then, Markus Grolms, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of thyssenkrupp AG, had managed the Supervisory Board's affairs. Bernhard Pellens has been a member of the Supervisory Board of thyssenkrupp AG since 2005.