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Press release Annual General Meeting approves dividend increase to EUR 1.35 Bonn , May 6 , 2021 : At today's Annual General Meeting of Deutsche Post AG , shareholders approved the resolutions proposed by the Board of Management and Supervisory Board by large majorities . Among other things , the shareholders approved with 99.36 percent of the votes the payment of a dividend of EUR 1.35 per share , which is EUR 0.20 higher than the previous year . The discharge of the Board of Management and Supervisory Board , the appointment of the auditor and capital - related resolutions were also approved by a large majority . The Annual General Meeting also approved the compensation system for the Board of Management , which from 2022 will provide for a fixed link between the annual bonus and the Group's ambitious ESG targets . In the Supervisory Board elections , Ingrid Deltenre , Member of the Board of Directors of Givaudan SA ( 98.62 percent of the votes ) , Prof. Dr. - Ing Katja Windt , Member of the Board of Management of SMS group GmbH ( 97.74 percent of the votes ) , and Dr. Nikolaus von Bomhard , Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Münchener Rückversicherungs - Gesellschaft AG ( 79.98 percent of the votes ) , were again elected . The entire Annual General Meeting was again broadcasted live on the internet for shareholders without the physical presence . All shareholders registered for the event were able to submit questions to the agenda online . The questions were answered during the meeting . The shareholders entitled to participate in the meeting could exercise their voting rights by postal vote or by issuing power of attorney and instructions to the company's proxies . In the context of voting on the agenda items , the average number of valid votes represented by 836,162,383 shares were represented . This corresponds to 67.48 percent of the share capital entitled to vote ( previous year : 68.75 percent ) . Media contact Deutsche Post DHL Group Media Relations Tobias Ender Phone : +49 228 182-9944 E - mail : pressestelle@dpdhl.com On the Internet dpdhl.com/press Follow us : twitter.com/Deutsche PostDHL Page 1 of 2 Deutsche Post DHL Group Deutsche Post DHL Group Charles - de - Gaulle - Str . 20 53113 Bonn Deutschland Telefon +49 228 182-9944 Telefax +49 228 182-9880 www.dpdhl.com - End - E - Mail pressestelle@dpdhl.com E - POST pressestelle.konzern@dpdhl.epost.de Twitter www.twitter.com/Deutsche Post DHL