Within the Executive Board of the Weidmüller Group, Detmold/Germany, 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 joined Siemens AG in 1992. After executive functions within various divisions of the Siemens Group, in 2007 he took over the function as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at a Business Unit of the VDO Automotive AG.