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Deutsche Post World Net Annual Report 2008
Corporate Governance
Report of the Supervisory Board
Changed Supervisory Board and Board of Management composition
 e following changes were made to the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Post  in
: E ective  May , employee representatives Frank von Alten-Bockum, Marion
Deutsch, Dirk Marx, Silke Oualla-Weiß and Margrit Wendt le the Supervisory Board,
Heinrich Josef Busch,  omas Koczelnik, Anke Kufalt, Andreas Schädler and Helga  iel
were newly elected and Wolfgang Abel, Rolf Bauermeister, Annette Harms, Andrea Kocsis
and Stefanie Weckesser were re-elected. Prof. Dr Wulf von Schimmelmann was appoint-
ed member of the Supervisory Board by the court on  August  and on  May 
was appointed shareholder representative for  ve years by the  . At the Super-
visory Board meeting on  December , he was elected chairman of the Supervisory
Board e ective  January  and Andrea Kocsis was con rmed as deputy chair. Ingrid
Matthäus-Maier resigned her seat e ective  August . On  September, Dr Ulrich
Schröder was appointed to the Supervisory Board by the court as a shareholder represent-
ative.  e appointment will be submitted to the shareholders for rati cation at the 
on  April, . Dr Jürgen Weber resigned his seat on the Supervisory Board and thus
his position as chairman as at  December .
The following changes occurred on the company’s Board of Management: On
 February , Dr Klaus Zumwinkel resigned from o ce.  e Supervisory Board
accepted his resignation and, on the same day, unanimously appointed Dr Frank Appel
as new chairman of the Board of Management. Dr Frank Appel initially assumed respon-
sibility for the chairman’s board department in addition to his previous duties. Bruce
Edwards and Hermann Ude were appointed members of the Board of Management e ec-
tive  March . Dr Wolfgang Klein stepped down from his position on the Board of
Manage ment of Deutsche Post until further notice e ective  June , and Dr Frank
Appel assumed responsibility for the   Division for this period in
addition to his other duties as chairman of the Board of Management. On  Novem-
ber , Dr Wolfgang Klein resigned his seat on the Board of Management of Deutsche
Post .
Company in compliance with all recommendations of the German Corporate Governance Code
In December , the Board of Management and the Supervisory Board submit-
ted an updated Declaration of Conformity pursuant to Section  of the Aktien gesetz
(Germany stock corporation act) and published it on the company’s website.  e previous
declarations can also be viewed on this website. In  nancial year , Deutsche Post 
complied with all recommendations of the German Corporate Governance Code as
amended on  June .  e company plans to continue complying with the recom-
mendations of the Code as amended on  June . Further information on corporate
governance within the company, including the remuneration of the Board of Manage-
ment and the Supervisory Board members, is contained in the Corporate Governance
Report on page .
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