DGAP-Adhoc: Bertrandt AG: The Supervisory Board decides on personnel changes in the Board of Management

The expiry of the term of office of the Supervisory Board Chair, Dr. Klaus Bleyer, is at the end of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting on 20. February 2019. The Supervisory Board intends to prepare a suitable succession. The Supervisory Board therefore intends - subject to sufficient support by shareholders according to section 100 (2) No. 4 German Stock Corporation Act - to propose to the shareholders meeting that Dietmar Bichler be elected as a member of the Supervisory Board. The Supervisory Board Chair, Dr. Klaus Bleyer, will recommend the election of Dietmar Bichler as his successor as the Supervisory Board Chair, following the end of the shareholders' meeting in 2019. Therefore, Dietmar Bichler will resign from his mandate as CEO of the Bertrandt Aktiengesellschaft, effective at the end of the Annual Shareholders' Meeting on February 2019.

In its meeting today, the Supervisory Board of Bertrandt Aktiengesellschaft therefore has decided to consent to the resignation by Dietmar Bichler and to appoint the other Members of the Board of Management, Michael Lücke, Markus Ruf and Hans-Gerd Claus for a new term of five years to ensure a long-term succession.