Jean-Jacques Henchoz takes over from Ulrich Wallin as Chief Executive Officer of Hannover Rück SE. The Annual General Meeting elected the shareholder representatives for the Supervisory Board of Hannover Re in accordance with the regular terms of office. Dr. Michael Ollmann was elected as a new member of the Supervisory Board to succeed Dr. Immo Querner. With the latter's departure the proportion of independent members on the Supervisory Board has therefore increased. The other existing members of the Supervisory Board were confirmed in office. Following the Annual General Meeting, the constituent meeting of the Supervisory Board was held in its new composition. Torsten Leue was elected as the new Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He succeeds Herbert Haas, who had chaired the Supervisory Board since 5 May 2009. Mr. Haas will continue to serve as a member of the Supervisory Board.

The Annual General Meeting approved the proposal of the Executive Board and Supervisory Board to pay a dividend of EUR 5.25 per share for the 2018 financial year. It is composed of an increased ordinary dividend of EUR 3.75 (previous year: EUR 3.50) per share and an unchanged special dividend of EUR 1.50 per share. Once again, an amount of more than EUR 630 million is thus being distributed to the shareholders of Hannover Re.