New Candidate for Membership of the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG Representing the Shareholders

STUTTGART, Germany, March 3 -- The Supervisory Board of Daimler AG has nominated Dr. Paul Achleitner as a candidate for membership of the Supervisory Board representing the shareholders. Achleitner will be available for election at Daimler's Annual Meeting to be held in Berlin on April 14, 2010. Arnaud Lagardere, a member of the Supervisory Board since 2005, has decided not to stand for reelection.

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Dr. Paul Achleitner (born in 1956) has been Member of the Board of Management for Finance of Allianz SE since 2000. Before that, he was a strategic business consultant at Bain & Co. and held various positions at Goldman Sachs in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Investment Banking departments. He became head of Goldman Sachs Germany in 1994.

Achleitner currently holds supervisory board positions at Bayer AG and RWE AG. He is also a member of the Shareholders' Committee of Henkel KGaA and Chairman of the Stock Exchange Commission of Experts at Germany's Federal Ministry of Finance.

A photograph of Dr. Paul Achleitner, candidate for election to the Supervisory Board representing the shareholders, can be found on the Daimler website at http://media.daimler.com/ms/cc/10303/e

Further information on Daimler is available on the internet at: http://media.daimler.com/

About Daimler

Daimler AG is one of the world's most successful automotive companies. With its divisions Mercedes-Benz Cars, Daimler Trucks, Mercedes-Benz Vans, Daimler Buses and Daimler Financial Services, the Daimler Group is one of the biggest producers of premium cars and the world's biggest manufacturer of commercial vehicles with a global reach. Daimler Financial Services provides its customers with a full range of automotive financial services including financing, leasing, insurance and fleet management.

The company's founders, Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz, made history with the invention of the automobile in the year 1886. As an automotive pioneer, Daimler continues to shape the future of mobility. The Group applies innovative and green technologies to produce safe and superior vehicles which fascinate and delight its customers. With the development of alternative drive systems, Daimler is the only vehicle producer investing in hybrid drive, electric motors and fuel-cell systems, with the goal of achieving emission-free mobility in the long term. This is just one example of how Daimler willingly accepts the challenge of meeting its responsibility towards society and the environment.

Daimler sells its vehicles and services in nearly all the countries of the world and has production facilities on five continents. Its current brand portfolio includes, in addition to the world's most valuable automotive brand, Mercedes-Benz, the brands smart, Maybach, Freightliner, Western Star, Fuso, Setra, Orion and Thomas Built Buses. The company is listed on the stock exchanges of Frankfurt, New York and Stuttgart (stock exchange symbol DAI). In 2009, the Group sold 1.6 million vehicles and employed a workforce of more than 256,000 people; revenue totaled euro 78.9 billion and EBIT amounted minus euro 1.5 billion.

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