the Supervisory Board Chairman of Rational AG Mr. Walter Kurtz has appointed Dr. Georg Sick to the Supervisory Board of Rational AG with effect from 18 October 2017. The company has thus filled the Supervisory Board position that became vacant due to the death of Mr. Siegfried Meister within the specified period. Dr. Sick has a PhD in metallurgy and was a member of the Group management of Wacker AG and Wacker Neuson SE from 1994 to 2010. He was responsible, among other things, for the development, procurement and production departments. He was a member of the Executive Board of Wacker AG since its foundation in 2002 and took over as CEO and president in 2005.