EANS-Adhoc: freenet AG / Supervisory Board proposes candidates to succeed Thorsten Kraemer and Prof. Dr. Helmut Thoma

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20.05.2011

Büdelsdorf, 20 May 2011 - The Supervisory Board of freenet AG today
decided to propose Dr. Hartmut Schenk, a tax consultant from
Saarbrücken, and Mr. Niclas Rauscher, an auditor and tax
consultant from Leipzig, as candidates for the freenet AG
Supervisory Board elections to the ordinary Annual General Meeting
on 30 June 2011. They would succeed Thorsten Kraemer and Prof.
Dr. Helmut Thoma, who will resign from the Supervisory Board with
effect from the end of this year´s Annual General Meeting. Dr.
Hartmut Schenk, currently chairman of the Supervisory Board of
Drillisch AG, has made a binding advance declaration that, should he
be elected to the Supervisory Board of freenet AG, he will resign
from all boards and committees of Drillisch AG and its associated
companies by the end of the ordinary Annual General Meeting of
freenet AG, and will not take on any board mandates at Drillisch AG
and its associated companies for the duration of his Supervisory
Board mandate at freenet AG.

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issuer: freenet AG
Hollerstraße 126
D-24782 Büdelsdorf
phone: +49 (0)4331 691000
mail: ir@freenet.ag
WWW: http://www.freenet-group.de
sector: Telecommunications
ISIN: DE000A0Z2ZZ5
indexes: Midcap Market Index, TecDAX, CDAX, HDAX, Prime All Share, Technology
All Share
stockmarkets: regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt, free trade: Berlin,
Hamburg, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Hannover, München
language: English

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Investor Relations
Tel.: +49 (0)40 513 06-778
E-Mail: ir@freenet.ag

Branche: Telecommunications
ISIN: DE000A0Z2ZZ5
WKN: A0Z2ZZ
Index: Midcap Market Index, TecDAX, CDAX, HDAX, Prime All Share,
Technology All Share
Börsen: Frankfurt / regulated dealing/prime standard
Berlin / free trade
Hamburg / free trade
Stuttgart / free trade
Düsseldorf / free trade
Hannover / free trade
München / free trade