Shareholders and Annual General Meeting

The shareholders of thyssenkrupp AG exercise their rights at the company’s Annual General Meeting. Under § 17 (6) of the Articles of Association, the Executive Board is authorized to allow for General Meetings to be held without the shareholders or their proxies being physically present at the venue of the General Meeting (virtual General Meeting). The authorization resolved at the Annual General Meeting on February 3, 2023 was applicable for two years following its entry into the commercial register of the corresponding provision of the Articles of Association and thus until the planned 2025 Annual General Meeting, which took place on January 31, 2025. The Annual General Meeting again resolved the aforementioned authorization and change to the Articles of Association, which allows for General Meetings to be held as a virtual General Meeting until the planned Annual General Meeting 2027. The Executive Board takes its decision to hold a General Meeting with physical presence or in virtual format after due consideration of all relevant objective criteria for each General Meeting. If the Executive Board were to make use of the proposed authorization in the future and decide to hold a General Meeting as a virtual meeting, the protection of shareholders’ rights would be central to the design and execution of the meeting. The Extraordinary General Meeting on August 8, 2025, at which a majority of 99.96% approved the spin-off and transfer agreement between thyssenkrupp AG and thyssenkrupp Projekt 2 GmbH (now: TKMS AG & Co. KGaA) and thus the spin-off of a minority interest in the Marine Systems segment, was held as a virtual meeting. It is planned to hold the Annual General Meeting on January 30, 2026 with physical presence.

At the Annual General Meeting the shareholders regularly pass resolutions on the appropriation of net income, the ratification of the acts of the Executive Board and Supervisory Board, election of the financial-statement auditors and approval of the compensation report. As a rule, shareholders can exercise their voting rights at the Annual General Meeting in person or by proxy, for which they can authorize a person of their choice or a company-nominated proxy acting on their instructions. They can also cast their votes online on the internet or in writing by an electronic vote. The Annual General Meeting can be viewed by anyone, live and in full, on the company’s website, even and in particular in the event that the General Meeting is held with physical presence. In addition, we make all legally required documents and information on the Annual General Meeting available to shareholders in good time on our website; this was also the case, for example, ahead of and when preparing the Extraordinary General Meeting. Furthermore, the website makes a wide range of information available to shareholders about their company during the year.

Once a year, the Chair of the Supervisory Board talks to institutional investors in a structured governance dialog about topics relating to the Supervisory Board and its work. The presentation prepared for this purpose is also available for download from the website as one element of the extensive ESG (environment, social, governance) information for the capital market. In addition, the Chair of the Supervisory Board is available for discussions with investors on a case-by-case basis or in special circumstances.