Birgit Biermann

Born December 26, 1973 in Hattingen, Germany
  • Nationality: German
  • Vice Chairwoman of the Steering Committee, Industrial Union IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IGBCE), Hanover 
  • Member of the Supervisory Board of LANXESS AG since 2025

Birgit Biermann studied law in Bochum, she passed the First Legal State Examination in 2000 and completed the Second Legal State Examination after her legal clerkship in Essen in 2002. In 2003 she acquired an additional qualification in tax and employment law of the Tax and Business Academy in Hagen.

She started her professional career in 2004 as a legal secretary at DGB Rechtsschutz GmbH in Essen. Following this, she worked in a law firm in Dortmund in 2005. As a union secretary for the IGBCE with legal protection duties, she worked from 2006 to 2013, at first in the region Dortmund/Dortmund-Hagen and later in the Westphalia regional office.

From 2013 to 2017, she was Vice Regional Director of the IGBCE in the Gelsenkirchen and, beginning in 2017, head of the region Dortmund-Hagen. In 2021, she became a member of the IGBCE's Steering Committee in Hanover and took over the position of Vice Chairwoman in 2023.

Membership of other statuary supervisory boards:
  • adidas AG, Herzogenaurach
  • DGB Rechtsschutz GmbH, Duesseldorf
  • LANXESS Deutschland GmbH, Cologne
  • Merck KgaA, Darmstadt
Membership in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies:
  • None
Main activities in addition to the Supervisory Board appointment:
  • Chairwoman of the Executive Board of August-Schmidt-Foundation, Bochum
  • German Social Accident Insurance Institution for the raw materials and chemical industry (BGRCI), Heidelberg
  • Member of the University Council of the Technical University Georg Agricola (THGA), Bochum

Cologne, May 2025