Andreas Umbach elected Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Jungheinrich AG
Dividend for 2025 set at €0.27 per ordinary share and €0.29 per preference share.
Hamburg – Following the Annual General Meeting on 19 May 2026, the Supervisory Board of Jungheinrich AG elected Andreas Umbach as its new Chairman at its inaugural meeting.
Prior to this, the shareholders of Jungheinrich AG had elected Andreas Umbach to the company’s Supervisory Board at the Annual General Meeting. With his election as Chairman, he succeeds Kathrin Dahnke, whose term as Chair ended at the close of the Annual General Meeting.
Kathrin Dahnke had taken over the chairmanship of the Supervisory Board on an interim basis following the early departure of her predecessor on 31 December 2025. The Supervisory Board would like to express its sincere thanks to her for taking on the chairmanship and for her committed and reliable leadership of the board during this transitional phase.
Andreas Umbach has many years of international management and supervisory board experience in industrial and technology companies. From 2002 to 2017, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Landis+Gyr Group AG and guided the company through several changes of ownership as well as its initial public offering. From 2017 to 2025, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Landis+Gyr Group AG and, from 2018 to 2025, as Chairman of the Board of Directors of SIG Group AG.
Prior to this, the 62-year-old held various senior management positions at Siemens for over a decade, including as a business unit manager in the power transmission and distribution division, as well as in management roles in Germany and Switzerland.
In addition to his operational management experience, Andreas Umbach brings extensive expertise from his work on supervisory boards. He is currently Chairman of the Advisory Board of Wittur Group GmbH (Germany) and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Schurter Group AG (Switzerland).
Andreas Umbach studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and obtained an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin (USA). He holds German and Swiss citizenship.
The Annual General Meeting of Jungheinrich AG has also resolved to pay a dividend of €0.27 per ordinary share and €0.29 per preference share for the 2025 financial year. This follows the corresponding proposal by the Management Board and the Supervisory Board.
