DGAP-News 599 0 Kommentare Linde AG: Professor Wolfgang Reitzle elected as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Linde AG

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Linde AG: Professor Wolfgang Reitzle elected as Chairman of the Supervisory
Board of Linde AG

03.05.2016 / 13:34
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Press release

Professor Wolfgang Reitzle elected as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of
Linde AG

Munich, 3 May 2016 - At the Annual General Meeting of Linde AG held today,
Professor Wolfgang Reitzle was elected to the Supervisory Board as a
shareholder representative. He will take up his position on the Supervisory
Board with effect from 21 May 2016 on the expiry of the statutory two-year
cooling-off period. Reitzle was Chief Executive Officer of Linde AG until
20 May 2014.

Following the Annual General Meeting, the members of the Supervisory Board
elected Professor Wolfgang Reitzle as its new Chairman with effect from 21
May 2016.

Dr Manfred Schneider resigned from the Supervisory Board and from his
position as Chairman of the Supervisory Board as planned with effect from
20 May 2016 and will cease to be a member of the Supervisory Board from
that date. He has sat on the Supervisory Board since May 2001 and has been
its Chairman since May 2003.

Dr Victoria Ossadnik, who was appointed by court in January 2016 to the
Supervisory Board of Linde AG, was elected to the Supervisory Board as a
shareholder representative at the Annual General Meeting.

In the 2015 financial year, The Linde Group generated revenue of EUR 17.944
bn, making it one of the leading gases and engineering companies in the
world, with approximately 65,000 employees working in more than 100
countries worldwide. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards
long-term profitable growth and focuses on the expansion of its
international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde
acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees,
society and the environment in every one of its business areas, regions and
locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and
products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable
development.

For more information, see The Linde Group online at www.linde.com

Further information:

Media Relations Investor Relations
Dr Frank Herkenhoff Dr Dominik Heger
Phone +49.89.35757-1320 Phone +49.89.35757-1334

Matthias Dachwald Bernard Wang
Phone +49.89.35757-1333 Phone +49.89.35757-1328

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Language: English
Company: Linde AG
Klosterhofstraße 1
80331 München
Germany
Phone: +49.89.35757-01
Fax: +49.89.35757-1075
E-mail: info@linde.com
Internet: www.linde.de
ISIN: DE0006483001
WKN: 648300
Indices: DAX
Listed: Regulated Market in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt (Prime
Standard), Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart; Regulated
Unofficial Market in Hanover; Terminbörse EUREX; SIX

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