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Annual General Meeting 2008

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    The Supervisory Board and the Board of Management propose that the net retained profits for 2007 of €1,198,387,685.00 be utilised as follows:
    Payment of a dividend of €5.50 per share entitled to dividend € 1,124,308,410.50
    Carried forward to new account € 74,079,274.50
    Net retained profits € 1,198,387,685
    The proposal for the appropriation of the profit takes into account own shares held directly or indirectly by the Company as well as own shares acquired by the Company and earmarked for retirement, which as per Section 71b of the German Stock Companies Act are not entitled to dividend. Up to the Annual General Meeting, the number of shares entitled to dividend may decrease or increase through the further acquisition or sale of own shares. In this case, an appropriately modified proposal for the appropriation of the profit, with an unchanged dividend of €5.50 per share entitled to dividend, will be made to the Annual General Meeting.
    The Supervisory Board and the Board of Management propose that approval for the actions of the members of the Board of Management in financial year 2007 be given for that period.
    The Supervisory Board and the Board of Management propose that approval for the actions of the members of the Supervisory Board in financial year 2007 be given for that period.

    Unless expressly permitted by law, Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft in München (hereinafter referred to as "Munich Reinsurance Company" or "the Company") requires the authorisation of the Annual General Meeting to buy back shares. As the authorisation granted on 26 April 2007 expires in October 2008, it will be proposed to the Annual General Meeting that the Company be again authorised to buy back own shares.

    The Supervisory Board and the Board of Management propose that the following resolutions be adopted:

    a) The Company shall be authorised to buy back its own shares up to a total amount of 10% of the share capital at the time the resolution is adopted. The authorisation may be exercised as a whole or in part amounts, on one or more occasions and for one or more purposes by the Company, but also by dependent Group companies or enterprises in which the Company has a majority shareholding, or by third parties for its or their account. The shares acquired plus other own shares in the possession of the Company or attributable to the Company in accordance with Section 71a ff. of the German Stock Companies Act may at no time amount to more than 10% of the share capital. The authorisation may not be used for trading in own shares.

    b) The shares shall be acquired at the discretion of the Board of Management aa) via the stock exchange or bb) via a public purchase offer to all shareholders or cc) via a solicitation to all shareholders to submit offers (request to sell) or dd) via a public offer to all shareholders to exchange Munich Re shares for shares in another listed company as defined in Section 3 para. 2 of the German Stock Companies Act. In cases bb), cc), and dd), the provisions of the German Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act shall be observed where applicable.

    aa) If the shares are bought back via the stock exchange, the purchase price (excluding incidental expenses) may not exceed by more than 10% or undercut by more than 20% the arithmetic mean of the closing price in Xetra trading on the Frankfurt stock exchange determined for Company shares with the same securities reference number on the last three days of trading prior to the commitment to purchase.

    bb) If the shares are bought back via a public purchase offer, the purchase price per share or the upper and lower limits of the price range (excluding incidental expenses) may not exceed or undercut by more than 20% the arithmetic mean of the closing price for Company shares with the same securities reference number in the closing auction in Xetra trading on the Frankfurt stock exchange on the fifth, fourth and third trading day before the date on which the offer is published. If after a public purchase offer there are significant deviations in the relevant share price, the offer may be adjusted. In this case, the basis for determining the purchase price or the purchase price range will be the arithmetic mean of the closing price for Company shares with the same securities reference number in Xetra trading on the Frankfurt stock exchange on the fifth, fourth and third trading day before the public announcement of the adjustment. The volume may be restricted. If the offer is oversubscribed, acceptance shall be based on quotas. For this, the Company may provide for preferred acceptance of small lots of shares (up to 100 shares tendered per shareholder). The purchase offer may provide for further conditions.

    cc) If the Company publicly solicits submission of offers to sell Munich Reinsurance Company shares, the Company may in its solicitation state a purchase price range within which offers may be submitted. The solicitation may provide for a submission period, terms and conditions, and the possibility of adjusting the purchase price range during the submission period if after publication of the solicitation significant share price fluctuations occur during the submission period. Upon acceptance, the final purchase price shall be determined from all the submitted sales offers. The purchase price (excluding incidental expenses) for each Company share may not exceed or undercut by more than 20% the average closing price of Company shares in Xetra trading during the last five trading days prior to the relevant date. The relevant date shall be the date on which the offers are accepted by the Company. If the number of Company shares offered for sale exceeds the total volume of shares the Company intended to acquire, acceptance shall be based on quotas. Furthermore, the Company may provide for preferred acceptance of small lots of shares (up to 100 shares tendered per shareholder).

    dd) In the case of a public offer to exchange Munich Re shares for shares in another listed company ("exchange shares") as defined in Section 3 para. 2 of the German Stock Companies Act, a certain exchange ratio may be specified or also determined by way of an auction procedure. A cash benefit may also be provided for as an additional payment to the exchange offered or as compensation for any fractional shares. In each of these procedures for the exchange of shares, the exchange price or the applicable top and bottom end of the price range in the form of one or more exchange shares and calculated fractional amounts, including any cash or fractional amounts (excluding incidental expenses), may not exceed or undercut by more than 20% the relevant value of Munich Re shares.

    The basis for calculating the relevant value of each Munich Re share and of each exchange share shall be the respective arithmetic mean closing price in Xetra trading on the Frankfurt stock exchange on the fifth, fourth and third trading day before the date on which the exchange offer is published. If the exchange shares are not traded in the Xetra trading system on the Frankfurt stock exchange, the basis shall be the closing prices quoted on the stock exchange having the highest average trading volume in respect of the exchange shares in the course of the preceding calendar year. If after a public exchange offer there are significant deviations in the relevant share price, the offer may be adjusted. In this case, the basis for the adjustment shall be the arithmetic mean closing price on the fifth, fourth and third trading day before the date of the public announcement of the adjustment. The volume may be restricted. If the exchange offer is oversubscribed, acceptance shall be based on quotas. For this, the Company may provide for preferred acceptance of small lots of shares (up to 100 shares tendered per shareholder). The exchange offer may provide for further conditions.

    c) The Board of Management shall be empowered to use shares acquired on the basis of the aforementioned or previously granted authorisations or in accordance with Section 71d sentence 5 of the German Stock Companies Act for all legally admissible purposes, and in particular as follows:

    aa) They may be used for launching the Company's shares on foreign stock exchanges where they are not yet listed.

    bb) They may be sold directly or indirectly in return for non-cash payment, in particular as part of offers to third parties in connection with mergers or acquisitions of companies or parts of companies, shareholdings or assets connected with such investments. Selling in this connection may also include the granting of conversion or subscription rights or of warrants and the transferring of shares in conjunction with securities lending.

    cc) They may be sold to third parties for cash other than via the stock exchange or via an offer to all shareholders.

    dd) They may be offered for subscription to the holders of conversion rights or warrants issued by the Company or one of its dependent Group companies.

    ee) They may be offered as employee shares to staff of the Company or of enterprises affiliated with the Company within the meaning of Section 15 ff. of the German Stock Companies Act.

    ff) They may be retired without a further resolution of the Annual General Meeting being required. Any retirement may be limited to a portion of the bought-back shares. The Board of Management may determine that the shares can also be retired in a simplified process, without reducing the share capital, by adjusting the proportion of the Company's share capital represented by each of the remaining no-par-value shares. In this case, the Board of Management shall be authorised to adjust the number of no-par-value shares in the Articles of Association.

    d) The price at which the shares are launched on other stock exchanges in accordance with item c) aa or sold in accordance with item c) cc may not significantly undercut the stock price determined for Company shares with the same securities number in the opening auction in Xetra trading on the Frankfurt stock exchange (excluding incidental costs) on the day the shares are launched or the binding agreement with the third party is concluded. In addition, in these cases the sum of the shares sold, together with any shares that may be issued or sold during the term of this authorisation by excluding the shareholders' subscription rights, directly or indirectly pursuant to Section 186 para. 3 sentence 4 of the German Stock Companies Act, may not exceed a total of 10% of the share capital at the time the shares are issued or sold or are to be issued.

    e) Should the Xetra trading system be replaced by a comparable successor system, the latter shall also take the place of the Xetra trading system for the purposes of this authorisation.

    f) The authorisations in accordance with item c) may be utilised one or more times, partially or wholly, individually or jointly; the authorisations in accordance with item c) bb, cc, dd or ee may also be utilised by dependent Group companies or enterprises in which the Company has a majority shareholding, or utilised for its or their account by third parties.

    g) Shareholders' subscription rights in respect of these bought-back shares shall be excluded insofar as the shares are used in accordance with the authorisations in items c) aa, bb, cc, dd or ee. Beyond this, if bought-back shares are sold via an offer to the shareholders, the Board of Management shall be entitled to exclude shareholders' subscription rights insofar as this is necessary to grant subscription rights to the bearers of Company or Group company convertible bonds or bonds with warrants to the extent to which such bearers would be entitled as shareholders after exercising their warrants or after the conversion requirements from such bonds have been satisfied.

    h) The authorisation shall run until 16 October 2009. The authorisation to buy back shares granted by the Annual General Meeting on 26 April 2007 shall be cancelled as from the moment this new authorisation comes into effect. If, on the basis of the authorisation of 26 April 2007, options whose term has not yet expired on 17 April 2008 have been issued to buy back own shares, the authorisation in respect of these options shall apply up to the end of their term and of a subsequent share acquisition, at the latest, however, up to 25 October 2008; own shares acquired by exercising these options shall be credited to shares purchased on the basis of the authorisation proposed by the Annual General Meeting on 17 April 2008 under this agenda item and also under item 6 of the agenda.

    In addition to the acquisition channels proposed in the authorisation under item 5 of the agenda, the possibility to buy back own shares by using derivatives is also to be provided for.

    The Supervisory Board and the Board of Management therefore propose that the following resolutions be adopted:

    a) By virtue of the authorisation granted at the Annual General Meeting on 17 April 2008 under item 5 of the agenda, the Company may in accordance with the provisions of items b) to h) buy back own shares also by using derivatives in the form of put options, call options or a combination of both (hereinafter referred to as "options").

    b) Options may be used in one of the channels outlined under aa, bb or cc or in a combination of these:

    aa) Put or call options may be issued and purchased via Eurex Deutschland or LIFFE (or comparable successor systems). In this case, the Company shall inform shareholders of any planned issue or purchase of put or call options by placing a public announcement in the newspapers. Different exercise prices (excluding incidental expenses) on different due dates may be selected for the options, even if the options are being issued or acquired at the same time.

    bb) The issue of put options, the purchase of call options, or a combination of both as well as their respective fulfilment may also be conducted outside the stock exchanges listed under aa) if the shares to be delivered to the Company on exercise of the options have previously been acquired via the stock exchange at the current share price in Xetra trading on the Frankfurt stock exchange.

    cc) The conclusion of put or call option contracts may be publicly offered to all shareholders or option contracts may be concluded with a bank or a credit institution (hereinafter referred to as "issuing undertaking") in accordance with Section 53 para. 1 sentence 1 or Section 53b para. 1 sentence 1 or para. 7 of the German Banking Act subject to the obligation to offer these options to all shareholders for subscription.

    The Company may only buy back the options outlined under items aa to cc in order to retire them.

    c) In the case of item b) aa and bb, the exercise price of the options (excluding incidental expenses) per share may not exceed or undercut by more than 20% the price determined for Company shares with the same securities number in the opening auction in Xetra trading on the Frankfurt stock exchange on the day the option contract is concluded. If own shares are bought back using options, the acquisition price (excluding incidental expenses) payable by the Company for the shares corresponds to the exercise price agreed on in the option. The acquisition price (excluding incidental expenses) paid by the Company for options may not lie above, nor the sale price (excluding incidental expenses) collected by the Company for options below, the theoretical market value of the respective option determined according to recognised principles of financial mathematics, the calculation of such market value considering among other things the agreed exercise price.

    d) In the case of item b) cc, the exercise price of the options (excluding incidental expenses) per share may not exceed or undercut by more than 20% the arithmetic mean of the closing price determined for Company shares with the same securities number in Xetra trading on the Frankfurt stock exchange on the fifth, fourth and third trading day prior to publication of the offer. In the event that the offer to shareholders is oversubscribed, allocation shall be based on quotas. The Company may provide for a preferred offer for concluding option contracts or a preferred allocation of options for small lots of shares (options up to 100 shares per shareholder).

    e) The term of the options shall be so determined that exercising options to acquire shares will be completed by 16 October 2009 at the latest. The Company may use options to acquire own shares up to a maximum of 5% of the share capital at the time the resolution is adopted at the Annual General Meeting.

    f) If options are used to buy back own shares, taking due account of item b) aa or bb, shareholders shall not have a claim to conclude such option contracts with the Company, in line with the provisions of Section 186 para. 3 sentence 4 of the German Stock Companies Act. Shareholders shall also not have the right to conclude option contracts to the extent that, on conclusion of option contracts pursuant to item b) cc, the Company has provided for a preferred offer or preferred allocation for the conclusion of option contracts with regard to small lots of shares. Shareholders shall have a right to offer their shares to the Company only insofar as the Company is obligated to purchase shares from them pursuant to the option contracts.

    g) Should the Xetra trading system be replaced by a comparable successor system, the latter shall also take the place of the Xetra trading system for the purposes of this authorisation.

    h) In all other respects the requirements and uses of the authorisation granted under item 5 of the agenda shall apply.

    The Supervisory Board and the Board of Management propose that the remuneration of the Supervisory Board be adjusted to take account of current circumstances. Fixed remuneration is to be marginally increased. In addition, greater allowance than in the past should be made for the substantial workload involved and specialist knowledge required. Consequently, the compensation of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board should rise to 250% of fixed and variable remuneration (hitherto 200%) and the amounts additional to fixed remuneration referred to in para. 1 sentence 1 should increase to 100% or 50% (hitherto 50%/25%) for members of the committees. In addition, the proposal also stipulates in para. 2a) an increase in the base amount for result-related annual remuneration to earnings per share of 12 euros (hitherto 4 euros) and a rise in the maximum amount of remuneration to 40,000 euros (hitherto 36,000 euros), while lowering the unit amounts for computational reasons to 4,000 euros (hitherto 4,500 euros). In line with suggestions in the German Corporate Governance Code (item 5.4.7 para. 2 sentence 2), it is proposed that para. 2 be amended to read that the result-related remuneration of members of the Supervisory Board should include components up to a maximum of 10,000 euros p.a. based on the company's long-term performance (para. 2b). The variable remuneration is to be linked to the objectives of the Changing Gear programme for profitable growth.

    In connection with the forthcoming adjustments, the maximum overall compensation is also to be raised to 300% (hitherto 250%) of fixed remuneration. The Nomination Committee, which was newly formed in accordance with the German Corporate Governance Code, will by its very nature meet less regularly than the other committees; in deviation of the general regulation in para. 3, its members shall therefore only receive, pursuant to para. 4, payment of an attendance fee of 2,000 euros for each meeting.

    The Board of Management and the Supervisory Board propose that Article 15 of the Articles of Association be reworded as follows:

    "(1) Each member of the Supervisory Board shall receive an annual remuneration of 50,000 euros. The Chairman of the Supervisory Board shall be entitled to two-and-a-half times, and the Deputy Chairmen to one-and-a-half times, this remuneration.

    (2) In addition, each member of the Supervisory Board shall receive

    a) result-related annual remuneration. This shall amount to 4,000 euros for each full euro by which earnings per share exceed 12 euros in the financial year for which the remuneration is paid ("remuneration year"), but to a maximum of 40,000 euros.

    b) result-related annual remuneration with long-term incentivisation of 10,000 euros. This shall be paid out if earnings per share in the remuneration year exceed earnings per share in the third financial year preceding the remuneration year by at least 30%.

    The Chairman of the Supervisory Board shall be entitled to two-and-a-half times, and the Deputy Chairmen to one-and-a-half times, these amounts. The basis for calculating the result-related remuneration shall be the undiluted earnings per share from continuing operations, as shown in the consolidated financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs).

    (3) Each member of a committee shall receive an additional amount equivalent to 50%, and the chairman of a committee an additional amount equivalent to 100%, of the remuneration provided for under paragraph 1 sentence 1. This shall not apply to the chairman and members of the Conference Committee set up in accordance with Section 27 para. 3 of the German Co-Determination Act and the Nomination Committee.

    (4) The members of the Audit Committee and the Nomination Committee shall receive an attendance fee of 2,000 euros for each meeting of the Committee they attend. For members of the Audit Committee, this shall apply only if the meeting of this committee does not take place on the same day as a Supervisory Board meeting.

    (5) The total annual remuneration of members of the Supervisory Board in accordance with paragraphs 1 to 4 shall be limited to three times the amount payable under paragraph 1.

    (6) The Company shall reimburse the members of the Supervisory Board for their expenses and for turnover taxes.

    (7) Supervisory Board members who have only served on the Supervisory Board or one of its committees for part of the financial year or of the three-year assessment period for remuneration in accordance with paragraph 2b shall be remunerated on a pro rata basis. For the calculation of long-term remuneration pursuant to paragraph 2b) membership on the Supervisory Board of at least six months in the respective financial year shall be deemed as membership during the full financial year.

    (8) These provisions shall apply for the first time to the remuneration payable for the financial year 2009. The provisions relating to the Nomination Committee shall apply for the first time to the financial year 2008."

    Voting results of the Annual General Meeting of the Munich Reinsurance Company on 17 April 2008

    At the 121st Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on 17 April 2008 at the ICM – International Congress Centre Munich – the result of the voting on the different items of the agenda was as follows (click here for further details of the items). 45.06% of the share capital was represented.

    Items Yes votes No votes Managment proposal in favour in %
    2 Resolution on the appropriation of the net retained profits from the financial year 2007 92,812,503 12,812 99.99%
    3 Resolution to approve the actions of the Board of Management 92,228,403 143,928 99.84%
    4 Resolution to approve the actions of the Supervisory Board 92,183,806 186,733 99.80%
    5 Authorisation to buy back and use own shares 88,580,431 3,718,989 95.97%
    6 Authorisation to buy back own shares using derivatives 89,318,238 3,159,960 96.58%
    7 Amendment to Article 15 of the Articles of Association (Remuneration of the Supervisory Board) 87,439,577 3,480,264 96.17%

    – ISIN DE0008430026 (WKN 843 002) –

    Dividend Notice

    The Annual General Meeting of Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft on 17 April 2008 voted for a dividend of €5.50 per share to be paid on each share entitled to dividend.

    Payment of the dividend, which will be subject to deduction of 20% German withholding tax and 5.5% solidarity surcharge on the tax withheld (a total of 21.1%), will be made as from 18 April 2008 as follows:
     

    • For registered shares held in joint custody in the German giro transfer system, the dividend will be paid via Clearstream Banking AG, Frankfurt am Main, to the shareholders' banks, which will credit the relevant amounts to the shareholders' accounts.
    • Payment for shares still held in certificated form will be made against submission of Dividend Coupon No. 11 to the following paying agent:

    Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG
    with all of its branches

    Shareholders subject to taxation in Germany can offset the tax withheld against assessed tax in their assessment for German income tax or corporation tax. The solidarity surcharge withheld can be offset against the assessed solidarity surcharge. No imputation tax credit is involved in the dividend payment.

    Withholding tax and solidarity surcharge will not be withheld in the case of shareholders liable to German taxation who have given their bank a "Nichtveranlagungsbescheinigung" (certificate from the German tax authorities that they are not subject to an assessment procedure). The same applies to such shareholders who have submitted a "Freistellungsauftrag" with sufficient exemption volume (German application for exemption from withholding tax).

    For shareholders subject to tax assessment in Germany, the dividend will be taxable in accordance with the provisions of German corporation and income tax law (half-income method).

    For foreign shareholders, the withholding tax and the solidarity surcharge withheld may be reduced pursuant to the existing agreements for the avoidance of double taxation between the Federal Republic of Germany and the respective foreign country. The application for a refund of withholding tax must be submitted to the Bundeszentralamt für Steuern, 53225 Bonn, Germany, no later than 31 December 2012.

    Munich, April 2008
    The Board of Management

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