DGAP-News: Wacker Chemie AG / Key word(s): Change of Personnel Wacker Chemie AG: Supervisory Board Extends the Contract of Executive Board Member Auguste Willems Until 2023 06.03.2018 / 15:25 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Munich, March 6, 2018 - Today, Wacker Chemie AG's Supervisory Board re-appointed Auguste Willems (59) to the Executive Board for another five years. Willems' current contract expires on December 31, 2018. He joined the Executive Board in 2006. Auguste Willems studied bioscience at the University of Leuven (Belgium). After graduating, he joined Henkel, holding various sales and marketing positions. He then spent several years in Indonesia and the USA, with overall operational responsibility. In 2002, after Henkel split off its specialty-chemicals business, he became group vice president of Functional Products at Cognis and a member of Cognis' Corporate Executive Committee. In January 2006, Willems was appointed to the Executive Board of Wacker Chemie AG. For further information, please contact: Wacker Chemie AG Media Relations & Information Christof Bachmair Tel. +49 89 6279-1830 [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 06.03.2018 Dissemination of a Corporate News, transmitted by DGAP - a service of EQS Group AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. The DGAP Distribution Services include Regulatory Announcements, Financial/Corporate News and Press Releases. Archive at www.dgap.de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Company: Wacker Chemie AG Hanns-Seidel-Platz 4 81737 München Germany Phone: 0049-89-6279-1633 Fax: 0049-89-6279-2933 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.wacker.com ISIN: DE000WCH8881 WKN: WCH888 Listed: Regulated Market in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Regulated Unofficial Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart, Tradegate Exchange End of News DGAP News Service --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 660999 06.03.2018