Release of a Voting Rights announcement according to Article 21 WpHG

WKN 843002
ISIN DE0008430026

On 14 January 2008, Allianz SE, Munich, Germany, informed us in accordance with Section 21, para. 1 of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG) that its share of the voting rights in our company had fallen below the threshold of 3% on 9 January 2008 and totalled 2.9362% on that date (this corresponds to 6,397,660 voting rights). 2.9316% of these voting rights (this corresponds to 6,387,645 voting rights) are attributable to Allianz SE in accordance with Section 22, para. 1, sentence 1, item 1 of the WpHG and 0.0046% (this corresponds to 10,015 voting rights) are attributable to Allianz SE in accordance with Section 22, para. 1, sentence 1, item 6 of the WpHG.

Furthermore, Allianz SE informed us in accordance with Section 21, para. 1 of the WpHG in conjunction with Section 24 of the WpHG as follows: The share of the voting rights of AZ-Arges Vermoegensverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, Koeniginstrasse 28, 80802 Munich, in our company had fallen below the threshold of 3% on 9 January 2008 and amounted to 2.68% on that date (this corresponds to 5,846,539 voting rights).

Munich, 16 January 2008

The Board of Management