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Election of two new Supervisory Board members to be proposed at the Dürr annual meeting on May 24, 2006

03/31/2006

Stuttgart, March 31, 2006 – As a matter of regular rotation, Dr. Tessen von Heydebreck and Professor Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Menno Harms will give up their seats on Dürr AG´s Supervisory Board at the annual meeting on May 24, 2006. Dr. Dr. Alexandra Dürr and Professor Dr.-Ing. Holger Hanselka will be proposed to the shareholders as their successors.

On the employees´ side, new elections of six members will be held as a matter of regular rotation. Peter Weingart and Werner Kramp are giving up their seats for reasons of age. The new elections will be completed by the time of the annual meeting.

Dr. Dr. Alexandra Dürr, 43, daughter of Dr.-Ing. E.h. Heinz Dürr and Heide Dürr, is doctor at the neurogenetics clinic in the Département de Génétique at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in Paris and scientist at the clinical research group Neurogenetik INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Medicale) U679, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris. She holds doctorates in medicine and human genetics.

Professor Dr.-Ing. Holger Hanselka, 44, is professor of systems reliability in mechanical engineering at Darmstadt Technical University and head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability in Darmstadt. He took his doctorate in 1992 at Clausthal Technical University and has been professor at Darmstadt Technical University since 2001.

The Dürr Group is one of the world's leading suppliers of products, systems, and services for automobile manufacturing. Its range of products and services covers important stages of vehicle production. As a systems supplier, Dürr plans and builds complete paint shops and final assembly facilities. Dürr also delivers cleaning and filtration systems for the manufacture of engine and transmission components as well as balancing systems.