Supervisory board
The members of the Supervisory Board of the BGE were appointed by Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze for a four-year term in office. The current 14 members advise and monitor the Managing Board of the BGE. Within the framework of this co-operation, the search for a repository for high-level radioactive waste and the operation of the Asse II mine and the Konrad and Morsleben repositories will be central topics.
The Supervisory Board meets at least once every six months and must approve the decisions of the Managing Board on certain activities. These include measures that could lead to a significant change in business activities within the scope of the articles of association or to a fundamental change in the net assets, financial position, or results of operations of the BGE, including major investments.
Regular reporting by the Managing Board to the Supervisory Board is carried out according to Section 90 of the German Companies Act (AktG). It includes, for example, the intended business policy and other fundamental questions of corporate planning (especially financial, investment and personnel planning) as well as the development of the BGE (especially profitability, sales, and the position of the company).
Rules of Procedure of the Supervisory Board
The rules of procedure govern the internal order of the Supervisory Board as well as the cooperation between the Supervisory Board and the Management Board. Among other things, it specifies which activities the members of the Management Board may carry out only with prior consent of the supervisory board.
The members of the Supervisory Board
Jan-Niclas Gesenhues © BMUV/Sascha Hilgers
Dr. Jan-Niclas Gesenhues
Chair of the Supervisory Board
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
Jan-Niclas Gesenhues has been Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection since 2024. He has been a member of the Bundestag since 2021 and was environment spokesperson for the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group and Head of the Working Group on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection from 2022 to 2024. From 2018 to 2022, he was a member of the executive board of the Greens in North Rhine-Westphalia, and he has been chair of the party’s regional association of Westphalia since 2022. Gesenhues received a PhD in international environmental and energy policy from the University of Münster in 2020.
Dirk Alvermann
Dirk Alvermann
Mine Captain, Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH, Morsleben repository (Employee Representative)
Dirk Alvermann is an employee representative on the Supervisory Board. The mining engineer has been working at the Morsleben repository since 1987. He works as a mine captain in the repository for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste. Alvermann has represented the workforce in Morsleben on the works council for 16 years. He has been chair of the works council in Morsleben since 2018.
Harald Ebner
Harald Ebner
Chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
Harald Ebner is a German politician and has been a member of the Bundestag since 2011. Before entering politics, the graduate agricultural engineer first worked as a freelance countryside ecologist and then in the state nature conservation administration of Baden-Württemberg. In the Bundestag, he serves as chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection. In terms of subject matter, Ebner’s focus is on German nuclear policy and, in particular, the intermediate and final disposal of radioactive waste.
Christina Egelkraut
Christina Egelkraut
Employee in Radiation Protection/Authorization Management, Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (employee representative)
Christina Egelkraut is an employee representative on the Supervisory Board. In 2013, she started as a legal assistant in radiation protection/authorization management at Asse-GmbH. Even after it was merged into the BGE in 2017, she retained this position. She has also been on the Asse works council since 2018 and a member of the BGE economic committee since 2021.
Claudia Engelhardt
Claudia Engelhardt
Head of the Fundamental Aspects of Radiological Protection division at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
Claudia Engelhardt has been head of the Directorate of Radiological Protection at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) since October 2024. In 2019, she took over as head of the Fundamental Aspects of Radiological Protection division at the ministry. Prior to that, she worked as an adviser in various work units relating to nuclear safety and security. Engelhardt is a physicist and has been employed at the BMUV since 2005.
Dr. Markus Fritschi
Dr. Markus Fritschi
Deputy CEO of the Swiss National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (Nagra)
Dr Markus Fritschi has worked at the Swiss National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (Nagra) since 1991, serving as a member of the Executive Board since 2003 and as Deputy CEO since 2016. Between 1994 and 1997, he was delegated to the Cooperative for Nuclear Disposal in Wellenberg (GNW) in the capacity of technical director. From 1997 to 2021, he was first head of the Repository Projects Division and then of the Communication and Public Affairs Division of Nagra.
Franz-Gerhard Hörnschemeyer © IG BCE
Franz-Gerhard Hörnschemeyer
Industrial group secretary for energy sustainability at the Industry Trade Union for the Mining, Chemical and Energy sector (IG BCE)
Franz-Gerhard Hörnschemeyer is trade union secretary of the IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE). The economist and social scientist first worked in the parliamentary office of Erwin Stahl (SPD), former state secretary and long-time Member of Parliament. From there, he moved to Ruhrkohle AG. Hörnschemeyer has been trade union secretary of IG BCE since 1992.
Sylvia Kotting-Uhl © Stefan Kaminski/Sylvia Kotting-Uhl
Sylvia Kotting-Uhl
Former Member of the Federal parliament Bundestag (Bündnis 90/DIE GRÜNEN) and chair of the Committee for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Sylvia Kotting-Uhl represented Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Alliance 90/The Greens) in the German Bundestag from 2005 until 2021. From 2009 to 2017, the lecturer and dramaturge was the nuclear policy spokesperson for her parliamentary group. From 2017 to 2021, she was Chair of the Environmental Committee in the parliament. As a member of parliament, she was involved in the development of the “Lex-Asse” as well as the Repository Site Selection Act. She was also a member of the Repository Commission.
Carsten Meyer
Carsten Meyer
Project Engineer Electrical Engineering, Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH (employee representative)
Carsten Meyer is an employee representative on the Supervisory Board. In 2011, he started working for the Deutsche Gesellschaft zum Bau und Betrieb von Endlagern für Abfallstoffe (DBE), which was merged into the BGE in 2017. He was employed in the TEK-TI.2 section as a project engineer for electrical engineering. He has been an alternate member of the works council in Peine since 2014 and a permanent member since 2018 as well as deputy chair of the works council for Peine since 2020.
Christina Offermanns
Christina Offermanns
Employee, Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH, Konrad Repository (employee representative)
Christina Offermanns is an employee representative on the Supervisory Board. The trained solicitor and notary clerk worked for many years at EON Kraftwerke and has been working at the Konrad mine since January 2014. She has been a member of the works council and its deputy chair since 2018.
Dr. Thomas Schröpfer
Dr. Thomas Schröpfer
Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH, Morsleben repository (employee representative)
Dr Thomas Schröpfer is an employee representative on the Supervisory Board of the BGE. A mining engineer, he has worked at the BGE (formerly the DBE) since 2008. In this time, he has carried out a variety of planning work for the Gorleben, Konrad und Morsleben sites. He has been group leader for decommissioning planning of the Morsleben repository since 2011. The same year, he was appointed as a member of the Peine subcommittee for the employee suggestion scheme. Prior to that, he worked in hazardous waste remediation in the private sector for some 20 years, holding various management positions.
Dr. Romy Strecker
Dr. Romy Strecker
Policy Officer at the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF)
Dr Romy Strecker has worked at the BMF since 2004 in the “Industrial holdings, federal real estate and privatisation” Directorate. A lawyer, she is currently in charge of the Institute for Federal Real Estate (BImA) and previously worked in areas including human resources and budgeting at the “Central administration and services” Directorate of the BMF. From 2002 to 2004, she worked in human resources at the Cottbus Regional Finance Office.
Lilian Tschan
Lilian Tschan
Permanent State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
Lilian Tschan has been Permanent State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS) since 2022. Prior to that, she had served as Head of Political Staff at the BMAS since 2018 and was Head of Division (Cabinet and Parliamentary Division) at the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth from 2014 to 2018. From 2011 to 2014, she was Representative for Labour and Social Affairs at the Representation of the Land of Baden-Württemberg to the Federation.
Marike Vornkahl
Marike Vornkahl
Solicitor in the Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (trade union for mining, chemicals and energy industries; trade union representative)
Marike Vornkahl was elected to the supervisory board of the BGE as a trade union representative. The solicitor worked for IG Metall from 2005 to 2008 in both board administration and legal counselling of members. Since 2014, she has worked as a solicitor in the IGBCE – first in the collective bargaining law and structuring section and since October 2021 in the North regional district. In addition to completing a specialist solicitor course for labour law and further training as a mediator, she also completed the IHK examination as a personnel clerk, worked at Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH as an advisor to the works council, and was a member of the supervisory board of HFC Prestige Service Germany GmbH.
Nicolaus-Alejandro Weil von der Ahe
Nicolaus-Alejandro Weil von der Ahe
Policy Officer at the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF)
Nicolaus-Alejandro Weil von der Ahe has been a lawyer at the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) since 2016, where he works in the “Industrial holdings, federal real estate and privatisation” Directorate. His current area of activity includes fundamental issues of investment management and the Public Corporate Governance Code (PCGK). He previously worked in the legal department of the BMF and in the area of PPP policy issues/infrastructure procurement and has represented the Federal Government on behalf of the BMF in OECD and UNECE committees. From 2012 to 2016, he worked as a lawyer in the M&A/corporate department of an international law firm in Hamburg.
Sebastian Zwetkow-Tobey
Sebastian Zwetkow-Tobey
Employee, Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung mbH, Asse II mine (employee representative)
Sebastian Zwetkow-Tobey is an employee representative on the Supervisory Board. In 2004, the trained systems electronics technician joined Deutsche Gesellschaft zum Bau und Betrieb von Endlagern für Abfallstoffe (DBE), which was merged into the BGE in 2017, via Thyssen Schachtbau as a miner and plant operator, initially at the Morsleben and Gorleben sites. Since 2008, he has worked as a miner in mine operations and access solution management at the Asse II mine and has been deputy works council chair there since 2018.