Dr. Carsten Hesse

Born July 2, 1963 in Berlin, Germany
  • Nationality: German
  • Chairman of the Managerial Employees’ Committee of Saltigo GmbH
  • Member of the Supervisory Board of LANXESS AG since 2025

Dr. Hesse studied chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin. He graduated with a diploma in 1987 and received a doctorate with a thesis in organic chemistry in 1990.

He started his professional career in 1990 at Bayer AG in Leverkusen in the central research department. In 1993, he moved to Bayer’s Uerdingen site. From 1998, he worked as plant manager in the Chemicals Business Unit of Bayer AG in Leverkusen, the Pharmaceuticals Business Unit in Wuppertal-Elberfeld as well as for Bayer Chemicals AG, and after its spin-off, for LANXESS at the Murcia (Spain) site.

In 2006, he changed to Saltigo GmbH, a subsidiary of LANXESS, where he held various management positions. Since 2006, Dr. Hesse has also been a member of the Managerial Employees’ Committee of Saltigo GmbH, which he was elected Chairman of in 2018, and a representative of Saltigo GmbH on the LANXESS Group Managerial Employees’ Committee. Since 2019, he works in the operations department of Saltigo GmbH.

 

Membership in other statutory supervisory boards:
  • LANXESS Deutschland GmbH, Cologne 

Membership in comparable domestic and foreign supervisory bodies:
  • None
Main activities in addition to the Supervisory Board appointment:
  • Association of employed academics and managerial employees of the chemical industry (VAA), Cologne
  • Works group board member LANXESS, Cologne


Cologne, May 2025