You can send requests for admission cards, grant proxy and give instruction at our Online AGM Service. You will find the Online AGM Service [here]

The Annual General Meeting is the most important annual event of a joint stock corporation during which shareholders and company management exchange views with one another. Thus the AGM is primarily an event for the shareholders.

A shareholder who registered in time and did not receive an admission card can still attend the AGM. If the admission card was issued and just did not make it through the mail (in time) to the addressee, the shareholder is on the registration list. This can be checked at the Info counter in the entrance area and, if necessary, a replacement admission card can be issued.

You have probably been registered by your bank or custodial bank more than once in the Share Register. Please contact the AGM Hotline. They will advise you how you can merge your share inventories with the help of your bank(s)/custodial bank(s).

The acquisition of the shares was either after the deadline for dispatch of the invitation letter or the invitation letter could not be delivered by mail. Please contact the AGM Hotline and ask for a new cover letter (or directly issue an admission card) and enter the new, correct address if necessary.

If the bank/custodial bank has not had the shareholder entered into the Share Register, the shareholder must contact his bank/custodial bank.

Of course the shareholder may do this. The best solution is to have an extra admission card issued for the accompanying person at the same time as his/her registration (proxy).

You can leave the AGM temporarily through the exit counter. Presentation of the voting card pad authorizes re-admission.

The next AGM will take place on May 26, 2009.

The length can not be predicted.

There are no seat cards.

Of course handicapped people can attend the Annual General Meeting.

The Annual General Meeting will be held in German.
For shareholders who do not speak German, headphones with radio receivers will be available in the lobby with which a simultaneous translation into English can be received in the Festhalle.

There will be a buffet with food and alcohol-free drinks available throughout the day.