The Supervisory Board of Daimler AG has appointed Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt as a member of the Board of Management in the newly created position with responsibility for Integrity and legal affairs for the period of Feb. 16, 2011 until Feb. 28, 2014.

Her responsibilities will include the global compliance and legal organization, business ethics and the continued sustained anchoring of integrity and compliance throughout the entire company. Hohmann-Dennhardt's appointment expands the Supervisory Board to seven members. Notably, Hohmann-Dennhardt is the first woman on the company's executive board in Daimler's 125-year history.

Hohmann-Dennhardt was a judge of the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court from January 1999 until February 2011. She was Hesse Minister of Science and the Arts from 1995 until 1999, and Hesse Minister of Justice from 1991 until 1995. Before that, she was director of the social court in Wiesbaden as well as a judge at the Social Courts of Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden and at the District Social Court in Darmstadt.