Changes within the Executive Board of the Weidmüller Group

Detmold, January 13, 2009 | Within the Executive Board of the Weidmüller Group, Detmold, it comes to a change. Effective 1 February 2009 Harald Vogelsang, presently Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of a Business Unit of the VDO Automotive AG, Regensburg, will take over in the Executive Board of the Weidmüller Group the responsibility for Finances. He succeeds Mr. Werner Dilly who last year communicated to the Supervisory Board that he intends to leave the company by mutual agreement with the expiration of this CFO contract.

Vogelsang was born in Gladbeck in 1962. After completing his studies in economics at the universities of Bochum and Wuppertal he joined Siemens AG in 1992. After executive functions within various divisions of the Siemens Group, in 2007 Mr. Vogelsang took over the function as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at a Business Unit of the VDO Automotive AG. Apart from the management of the financial division Mr. Vogelsang was responsible for the strategic planning and important key projects of the VDO Group. Mr. Vogelsang is married and father of a daughter.

Harald Vogelsang

The present CFO of the Weidmüller Group, Werner Dilly, will hand over his tasks to Vogelsang within the coming weeks. Dilly stands with Weidmüller since 1997. In 2002 he took over the function as CFO and in 2006 he was appointed - next to the CEO, Dr. Joachim Belz - as Member of the Executive Board of the Weidmüller Group.

Christian Gläsel, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Weidmüller Group, about the change: „We are pleased to have won with Mr. Vogelsang a CFO with extensive international and branch-related experience. With his proven expertise Mr. Vogelsang is the qualified Chief Financial Officer for Weidmüller.

“At the same time Gläsel thanks the present Chief Financial Officer Werner Dilly for his performed work in the Weidmüller Group in a difficult time. Not least Dilly set substantial impulses for the Weidmüller Group in the phase of extensive reorganisation.

Werner Dilly