EANS-Voting Rights: HeidelbergCement AG / Correction: Release of a voting rights announcement according to article 26, section 1.1 WpHG (Securities Trading Act) with the aim of a Europe-wide distribut

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Notification of voting rights transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer is
responsible for the content of this announcement.
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Person/company obliged to make the notification:

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Name: Ludwig Merckle
State: Germany

Company data:
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Name: HeidelbergCement AG
Address: Berliner Straße 6, 69120 Heidelberg
Place: Heidelberg
State: Germany

Mr. Ludwig Merckle, Germany, has notified us on 13 October 2009, as a correction
to his notification of voting rights pursuant Art. 21 para. 1 German Securities
Trading Act dated 6 May 2009, of the following:

"Hereby I notify you pursuant to Art. 21 para. 1 German Securities Trading Act,
that my voting rights in HeidelbergCement AG on 5 January 2009 (day of my father
Adolf Merckle's death) went over the thresholds of 3%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%,
30%, 50% and 75% and on that day amount to 79.52% (99,397,749 voting rights).

Out of these 79.52% of the voting rights (99,397,749 voting rights) are assigned
to me pursuant to Art. 22 para. 1 sent. 1 no. 1 German Securities Trading Act.

The voting rights assigned to me are held by the following companies controlled
by me whose votings rights in HeidelbergCement AG each amount to 3% or more:

- KL Holding GmbH
- Kötitzer Ledertuch- und Wachstuch-Werke Aktiengesellschaft (now named as
Kötitzer Ledertuch- und Wachstuch-Werke GmbH)
- Spohn Cement GmbH
- UBH Unternehmens- und Beteiligungsholding mbH
- Ludwig Merckle GmbH & Co KG
- L. Merckle GmbH
- Pan GmbH
- LH Leder Holding GmbH
- LH Leder Holding Vermögensverwaltung GmbH
- VEM Vermögensverwaltung GmbH
- Horst Plaschna Management GmbH & Co. Beteiligungssanierungs- und -verkaufs KG
- VEM Management GmbH
- VEM Beteiligungen GmbH
- LuMe Vermögensverwaltung GmbH"

The opening of the will of Adolf Merckle was on 30 April 2009."

Heidelberg, 15 October 2009
The Managing Board

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