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New Head of DaimlerChrysler Investor Relations

20 September 2000

New Head of DaimlerChrysler Investor Relations

    AUBURN HILLS, Mich. and STUTTGART, Germany, Sept. 20 Elizabeth Wade, 42, is to become the new Senior Vice President Investor
Relations of DaimlerChrysler on October 1, 2000.
    DaimlerChrysler CEO Juergen E. Schrempp announced the appointment today.
"I am very pleased that Liz Wade, an experienced and successful international
investor relations manager, will be joining our company," said Schrempp.  "Ms.
Wade is the perfect choice for this crucial and important role within
DaimlerChrysler.  Together with our investor relations team, she will continue
to expand DaimlerChrysler's communications activities with the capital
markets."
    Elizabeth Wade has fifteen years experience in the equity markets; within
fund management, investment banking and investor relations.  From 1994-1999
she was head of the investor relations department at Barclays in London, where
she was responsible for relations with shareholders, brokers, analysts and
rating agencies.  At Barclays she also had executive management responsibility
for all aspects of communications and investor relations.  She was most
recently a partner at investor relations consultancy, Makinson Cowell, where
she had responsibility for the development of their continental European
business.
    Elizabeth Wade will be supported at DaimlerChrysler by a team of highly-
qualified professionals.  The company has won various national and
international investor relations awards over the past few years, most recently
the Investor Relations Prize from the business magazine Capital.