GEA Group AG

Board/Management Information • Apr 22, 2009

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Corporate | 22 April 2009 15:40

GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft: GEA Group – New CFO Dr. Helmut Schmale

GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft / Change of Personnel

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Bochum, 22 April 2009 - In today's Annual General Meeting the shareholders
of GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft elected Hartmut Eberlein into the
Supervisory Board. Until this day he had served as Chief Financial Officer
of GEA Group. He replaces Louis Graf von Zech who left the Supervisory
Board at his own request. Dr. Jürgen Heraeus, Chairman of the Supervisory
Board of GEA Group, and Jürg Oleas, Chairman of the Executive Board of GEA
Group, thanked Hartmut Eberlein in their speeches for the extraordinary
good and successful cooperation. Jürg Oleas stressed his strategic
contributions to the Executive Board's initiatives of the last 3 years and
pointed out, that the 2008 record result was to no small extent also
Eberlein's achievement.

Dr. Helmut Schmale (52) has taken over as new Chief Financial Officer of
GEA with the conclusion of this year's Annual General Meeting. He has been
with GEA since 1993, when he joined one of the subsidiaries of the Thermal
Engineering Division as Finance Director. In 1997, he became Chief
Financial Officer of the division and has been leading it as Division
President since 2004, before becoming a Member of the Executive Board of
GEA Group on April 1st, 2009.

GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft is one of the largest pure mechanical
engineering groups in Germany. As an internationally operating technology
group, it concentrates on specialty mechanical engineering with a focus on
process technology and components. Group revenue amounted to EUR 5.2
billion in fiscal year 2008. The Group generated about 50 percent of this
revenue from the high-growth food manufacturing and beverages industries.
As of December 31, 2008, a workforce of over 21,000 employees served
customers in 50 countries. GEA Group is a market and technology leader in
90 percent of its business areas. GEA Group is listed in the MDAX index
(G1A, WKN 660200).
22.04.2009 Financial News transmitted by DGAP

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Language: English
Issuer: GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft
Dorstener Straße 484
44809 Bochum
Deutschland
Phone: +49 (0)234 980-0
Fax: +49 (0)234 980-1004
E-mail: investor.relations@geagroup.com
Internet: www.geagroup.com
ISIN: DE0006602006
WKN: 660200
Indices: MDAX
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Berlin, Frankfurt (Prime Standard),
Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München; Freiverkehr in Hannover,
Stuttgart

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