Personal linkage between the biggest German corporations is subject to a special survey bythe monopoly-commission every two years. For the latest reporting year 2004 linkage-data isused to examine the impact of personal linkage on the compensation of management boardmembers. The assumed positive coherence approves in two ways. First, compensation ofmanagement board members rises with the amount of corporation-linkages by additionalsupervisory board mandates of the individual members of the management board.[...]