DaimlerChrysler Annual Meeting Approves Dividend for 2004

BERLIN, April 6 -- Today, DaimlerChrysler's Annual General Meeting voted Arnaud Lagardere onto the Supervisory Board as successor of Prof. Victor Halberstadt. Effective immediately, Lagardere, personally liable shareholder and CEO of Lagardere SCA, represents the shareholders on the Supervisory Board up to the Annual General Meeting in 2010.

The shareholders of DaimlerChrysler also approved a dividend of euro 1.50 (2003: euro 1.50) per share for the year 2004. The total dividend distribution amounts to euro 1,519 million, as in the previous year. The agenda topic "Allocation of Unappropiated Profit" was approved with 99.77 percent. The Board of Management was ratified with 94.59 percent, the Supervisory Board with 94.38 percent. The Annual Meeting at the Messe Berlin was attended by approximately 8,500 (2004: 9,300) shareholders, representing a total presence of 37.84 percent of the share capital.

The dividend will be paid out on April 7, 2005 to investors owning DaimlerChrysler shares on April 6, 2005.