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Focus topic in diversity, equity and inclusion management
The advancement of women is a focus topic in diversity, equity and inclusion management. Mercedes-Benz has set itself aspirational goals to fill more senior management positions with qualified women and aims to achieve a share of 30 % group wide in 2030 as a next step. By December 31, 2024 the proportion is at 26,4 %.
Alongside our voluntary commitment to promoting women in executive positions, we are bound in Germany by the Act on the Equal Participation of Women and Men in Executive Positions in the Private and the Public Sector in the version of the Second Executive Positions Act, which applies to listed companies or those subject to co-determination. It obliges the companies concerned to determine and publish targets for the proportion of women on their supervisory board, their management body and in the two levels below their management body, as well as a deadline for achieving them. Statutory minimum quotas apply directly to listed companies such as Mercedes-Benz Group AG, which have equal co-determination.
In addition to Mercedes-Benz Group AG itself, this act applies to Mbition GmbH, MDC Power GmbH, Mercedes-AMG GmbH, Mercedes-Benz AG, Mercedes-Benz Bank AG, Mercedes-Benz Bank Service Center GmbH, Mercedes-Benz Group Services Berlin GmbH, Mercedes-Benz Ludwigsfelde GmbH, Mercedes-Benz Mobility AG, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH and Mercedes-Benz Tech Motion GmbH.
By resolution dated December 2, 2020, the Supervisory Board has set a target for the proportion of women with regard to its own composition of 30 % (6 out of 20 members), a figure in line with the status quo existing at the time of the resolution, and December 31, 2025 as the deadline for achieving it. As of December 31, 2024, the proportion of women on the Supervisory Board of Mercedes-Benz AG was with eight women out of 20 members at 40 %.
Also by resolution dated December 2, 2020 and with women making up 37.5 % (three out of eight members) of the Board of Management, the Supervisory Board has set a target for the proportion of women on the Board of Management of 25 % (two out of eight members) and a deadline of December 31, 2025. As of December 31, 2024, the proportion of women on the Board of Management was with three women out of eight members at 37.5 %.
In a resolution dated February 19, 2025, the Supervisory Board of Mercedes-Benz AG set a target for the proportion of women on the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG of at least one woman and at least one man and a deadline of December 31, 2025, given that the proportion of women on the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG was 30 % (three of a total of ten members of the Board of Management) at that time. With this resolution, the target for the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG was aligned with the statutory minimum participation requirement of one woman and one man, which applies to the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG as a listed company with more than three members of the Board of Management, as both bodies are identical.
By resolution dated November 24, 2020, the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG has set targets for the proportion of women at both the first and second management level below the Board of Management of 20 %, based on the figures of 15.1 % (5 out of 33 executives) for the proportion of women at the first management level and of 15.7 % (30 out of 191 executives) at the second management level at the time of the resolution, as well as a deadline for achieving these targets of December 31, 2025.
As of December 31, 2024, the first management level of Mercedes-Benz AG below the Board of Management consisted of 30 executives, four of whom were women (13.3 %) and the second management level of 187 executives, 44 of whom were women (23.5 %).
On the basis of the assumption of a total of 30 executives at management level 1 and a total of 187 executives at management level 2 of Mercedes-Benz AG as of December 31, 2025, the target rate of 20 % results in a target of six women for level 1 and a target of 38 women for level 2.
By resolution dated December 16, 2020 the Supervisory Board of Mercedes-Benz Ludwigsfelde GmbH has set a target of 25 % (3 out of 12 members) for the proportion of women with regard to its own composition, a figure in line with the status quo existing at the time of the resolution, and December 31, 2025 as the deadline for achieving it. As of December 31, 2024, the proportion of women on the Supervisory Board of Mercedes-Benz Ludwigsfelde GmbH was 16.6 % (2 out of 12 members).
Also on 16 December 2020 and with a proportion of 0% of women in the Management Board, consisting of two persons, the Supervisory Board has set a target for the proportion of women on the Management Board of 30 % (one out of three members), as well as the deadline of 31 December 2025. As of December 31, 2024, a woman belonged to the Management Board of Mercedes-Benz Ludwigsfelde GmbH, which still consists of two members; the proportion of women on the Management Board at that time was thus 50 %.
By resolution dated November 18, 2020, based on the figures of 0 % (0 out of 6 executives) for the proportion of women at the first management level and of 18.9 % (7 out of 37 executives) at the second management level below the Management Board at the time of the resolution, the Management Board of Mercedes-Benz Ludwigsfelde GmbH has set targets for the proportion of women at the first management level of 12.5 % and at the second management of 25 %, as well as a deadline for achieving these targets of December 31, 2025.
As of December 31, 2024, no women were represented at the first management level below the Management Board, consisting of a total of eight executives, and the proportion of women was therefore zero. At the second management level below the Management Board, nine of the 34 executives were female as of December 31, 2024, corresponding to a share of 26.5 %.
On the basis of the assumption of a total of eight executives at the first management level and a total of 34 executives at the second management level below the Management Board of Mercedes-Benz Ludwigsfelde GmbH as of December 31, 2025, the target rate of 12.5% results in a target of 1 woman for the first management level and the target rate of 25 % results in a target of nine women for the second management level below the Management Board.
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Notice: All percentages are rounded down to one decimal place.
This article was last updated in April 2025.
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