Supervisory Board of DaimlerChrysler AG Takes Personnel Decisions

* Hilmar Kopper re-elected as Supervisory Board Chairman

* Bernhard Walter becomes the new Audit Committee Chairman

* Professor Jurgen E. Schrempp reappointed as Chairman of the Board of Management until 2008

* Annual Meeting approves unchanged dividend of euro 1.50 per share for 2003

BERLIN, April 7 -- Following to the Annual Meeting in Berlin, the Supervisory Board of DaimlerChrysler AG passed the following resolutions on Wednesday evening. At its first meeting after the election of shareholder representatives by the Annual Meeting, the Supervisory Board appointed Hilmar Kopper (69) as its Chairman for another three-year term.

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The Supervisory Board also established the committee memberships. The leadership of the Presidial and Mediation Committees remains unchanged, with Hilmar Kopper as Chairman and Dr. Manfred Schneider (65) as member. Bernhard Walter (62) will be the new Chairman of the Audit Committee. Walter succeeds Hilmar Kopper, who will continue as member of the committee. This change at the top of the audit committee is in accordance with the recommendations of the German Corporate Governance Code, which state that the Supervisory Board Chairman should not also be Audit Committee Chairman.

The Supervisory Board extended Jurgen E. Schrempp's (59) appointment as Chairman of the Board of Management of DaimlerChrysler AG until the Annual Meeting in 2008.

Prior to the Supervisory Board Meeting the Annual Meeting approved a company dividend of euro 1.50 (2002: euro 1.50) per share for 2003. The dividend total of euro 1,519 million is unchanged from the previous year and is the highest of all companies listed on the German DAX.

The agenda topic "Allocation of Unappropriated Profit" was approved with 99.74 percent. The Board of Management was ratified with 88.49 percent, the Supervisory Board with 87.28 percent. The Annual Meeting at the Messe Berlin was attended by approximately 9,300 (2003: 8,500) shareholders, representing a total presence of 43.69 percent of the share capital.

The dividend will be paid on April 8, 2004 to investors owning DaimlerChrysler shares on April 7, 2004.

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