They replace Rainer Meyer (64), former head of management accounting at Bayer, and Dr. Roland Hartwig (62), former head legal advisor at Bayer AG, who leave their posts in the company after retiring from their posts in the Bayer group.
The shareholders’ committee will be made up of the following members from 1 January 2017: Chairman Werner Wenning, supervisory body chair at Bayer AG, Klaus Beck, CEO of TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen, Bernd-Peter Bier, Head of Accounting und Taxes at Bayer AG, Dr. Gabriel Harnier, General Counsel of Bayer AG, Wolfgang Holzhäuser, former CEO of Bayer 04 Fußball GmbH, Dr. Michael Preuss, Head of Corporate Brand, Communications and Government Relations at Bayer AG.
Four Bayer 04 players are in action at the 35th edition of the Africa Cup of Nations being played in Morocco from 21 December to 18 January 2026: Eliesse Ben Seghir for the hosts, Edmond Tapsoba with Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Maza for Algeria and Christian Kofane with Cameroon. Updates on the AFCON matches involving Werkself players...
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Two Saturdays, one Friday and one Sunday: The dates for the Bayer 04 Women's team games on matchdays 16 to 19 have been finalised. Three of the four matches scheduled by the German Football Association (DFB) on Tuesday will be played at home at the Ulrich Haberland Stadium.
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Bayer 04 currently have a number of promising young talents on loan to various clubs in Europe with the aim of gaining match practice and furthering their individual development. Francis Onyeka and Farid Alfa-Ruprecht, for example, play for VfL Bochum 1848, while Artem Stepanov is a striker with 1. FC Nürnberg, coached by World Cup winner Miroslav Klose. Tim Oermann is a defender in the Austrian Bundesliga at top club SK Sturm Graz and Abdoulaye Faye is playing in France for FC Lorient, promoted to Ligue 1 this season. Bayer04.de reviews the first six months for the Leverkusen players out on loan.
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Werkself-TV shows the highlights of the Bayer 04 women's 0-3 loss against FC Bayern on the 14th matchday of the Google Pixel Frauen-Bundesliga 2025/26.
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