Management of the Leipziger Messe
The Leipziger Messe Group of Companies works coherently towards success. This requires optimal organisation in our project and business departments and throughout the five subsidiaries, as well as stable and long-sighted management with consistent leadership principles.
Find out more about the management, supervisory board and our shareholders.
Chief Executive Officers of the Leipziger Messe
The Chief Executive Officers of the Leipziger Messe are Martin Buhl-Wagner (spokesman) and Markus Geisenberger.
To ensure responsible conduct in compliance with the law, the management and all employees of the Leipziger Messe Group of Companies are committed to a common code of conduct .
Martin Buhl-Wagner, Chief Executive Officer
Martin Buhl-Wagner (*1966 in Annaberg-Buchholz) studied industrial engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. After working as a teacher, he took up project management for the Leipziger Messe Group of Companies in 1995. From 2000 he served as head of administration at the MEDICA Clinic for Outpatient Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Leipzig, and in 2002 he took over as authorised signatory for the operational management of Leipziger Messe's subsidiary FAIRNET Gesellschaft für Messe-, Ausstellungs- und Veranstaltungsservice GmbH.
Martin Buhl-Wagner was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Leipziger Messe GmbH and its subsidiaries in 2008, and has been spokesman for the executive board since 2010. Martin Buhl-Wagner holds positions on supervisory boards and industry committees and is chairman of the Association of Sponsors and Friends of the University of Leipzig. He is married and father to one daughter.
Photos of Martin Buhl-Wagner are available for download from the Leipzig Trade Fair photo service .
Markus Geisenberger, Chief Executive Officer
Markus Geisenberger (*1967 in Grafenau) majored in cultural studies (Master of Arts) at the Universities of Passau and Angers (France) and holds an MBA from the University of Edinburgh Business School. He was part of the founding members of Bayern International GmbH, for which he managed export promotion projects for companies worldwide until 2001. Subsequently, he worked as Advisor Business Development at Deutsche Messe AG in Hanover. In 2004, he joined Messe München GmbH. There, he was initially responsible for new business and then as a Business Unit Manager for the international technology trade fairs.
Markus Geisenberger has been Chief Executive Officer of Leipziger Messe GmbH and LMI Leipziger Messe International GmbH since 2010. He is married and has two children.
Photos of Markus Geisenberger are available for download from the Leipzig Trade Fair photo service .
Leipziger Messe Supervisory Board
The Supervisory Board currently comprises 16 members with voting rights. The chair of the Supervisory Board alternates every two years between the City of Leipzig and the Free State of Saxony.
| Members of the Supervisory Board | |
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| Burkhard Jung | Mayor of Leipzig (Chairman of the Supervisory Board) |
| Martin Dulig | State Minister, Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport (Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board) |
| Dr Reinhold Festge | personally liable Managing Partner, HAVER & BOECKER OHG |
| Prof Dr Gesine Grande | President Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg |
| Nina Hugendubel | Managing Partner, H. Hugendubel GmbH & Co. KG |
| Thomas Kralinski | State Secretary, Saxon State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Labour and Transport |
| Martin Meißner | Member of the parliamentary party Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen at the City Council of Leipzig |
| Walter Mennekes | Managing Partner, Mennekes Elektronik GmbH & Co. KG |
| Dr Arend Oetker | Managing Director, Dr. Arend Oetker Holding GmbH & Co. KG |
| Sören Pellmann | Member of the German Bundestag, Chairman of the parliamentary party DIE LINKE in the Leipzig City Council |
| Bodo Rodestock | Member of the Executive Board of VNG AG - Verbundnetz Gas AG |
| Frank Tornau | Chairman of the parliamentary party CDU in the Leipzig City Council |
| Hartmut Vorjohann | State Minister, Saxon State Ministry for Finances |
| Employees' Representatives of the Supervisory Board: | |
| Kerstin Falkowski-Tollert | Chairwoman of the Works Council of Leipziger Messe GmbH |
| Katharina Groß | Employees' Representative of Leipziger Messe GmbH |
| Frank Hercher | Vice Chairman of the Works Council of Leipziger Messe GmbH |
| Version: 01.01.2023 |
Shareholders
| The following are shareholders in Leipziger Messe GmbH |
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| Free State of Saxony holds 50% of the equity shares. |
| City of Leipzig holds 50% of the equity shares. |