Annual General Meeting

Deutsche Post AG’s AGM will be held at 10 am (CEST) on August 27, 2020. It will be conducted this year as a virtual event that is not attended in person by shareholders and their proxies. The meeting will be held at Deutsche Post AG’s headquarters, Charles-de-Gaulle-Str. 20, 53113 Bonn, Germany.

Deutsche Post AG’s AGM will begin at 10 am (CEST) on August 27, 2020.

Deutsche Post AG’s AGM will begin at 10 am (CEST) on August 27, 2020. The exact length of the AGM cannot be predicted.

You may register for Deutsche Post AG’s AGM either in writing or online. If you register in writing, please use the response form and return envelope that were included in your invitation and post it to Deutsche Post AG c/o ADEUS Aktienregister-Service-GmbH, 20716 Hamburg, Germany or fax it to +49(0)228 182-63631.

Alternatively, you can register by using the internet dialogue option offered in the online service. You will find your access data (shareholder number and individual access data) for the online service in your invitation to the AGM. Shareholders who have registered for electronic delivery of the AGM are requested to use the access code they issued themselves during registration. We must receive your registration by the end of August 20, 2020.

You can register with the online service by voting by postal ballot, issuing proxies and instructions to representatives of Deutsche Post AG or sending proxy voting authority or evidence of such action. Please register online on our website by using your shareholder number and your individual access code.

Shareholders must have registered by the deadline listed in the invitation (August 20, 2020) in order to participate in the AGM.

If you would like to register by using the response form, we urge you to use one of the following two options: Postal voting or proxies and instructions. Proxies and instructions can be issued to the proxies of Deutsche Post AG, an intermediary, a shareholders’ association, a proxy adviser or any other individual or institution authorized under Section 135 of the Aktiengesetz (AktG - German stock corporation act). You will find a proxy form that you can use to authorize a proxy on our website as from the date of the convocation.

Under Article 2(1) of the Gesetz zur Abmilderung der Folgen der COVID-19-Pandemie im Zivil-, Insolvenz- und Strafverfahrensrecht (COVID-19-Gestz - German act to mitigate the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic under civil, insolvency and criminal procedure law) dated March 27, 2020, Deutsche Post AG’s AGM will be held on August 27, 2020, as a virtual AGM that is not attended in person by shareholders or their proxies, with the exception of the proxies appointed by the company.

Since this year’s AGM will be a virtual event, the entire AGM will be streamed by the online service for shareholders. Shareholders entered into the shareholder register and their proxies will be able to watch and listen to the AGM during an online stream. To view the stream, please use the Livestream button in the online service. The AGM will be streamed without restriction until the end of the CEO’s speech on our website.

Deutsche Post AG’s entire AGM can be viewed and heard live beginning at 10 am (CEST) on August 27, 2020, on our website.

We have set up an online service for our shareholders. You may log in to it by going to our website and entering your shareholder number and individual access code: You can go there to watch the entire AGM and to submit questions regarding the agenda in advance of the AGM until midnight on August 24, 2020. You will also have an opportunity there to cast online ballots and issue proxies with instructions to Deutsche Post AG proxy representatives. If you would like to stop receiving paper invitation documents to the AGM in the future, please select Registrierung für den E-Mail-Versand (“registration for e-mail delivery”). Once you have done so, we will send you the invitation documents by e-mail in the future.

The first part of the AGM may be viewed online by the general public. This part will comprise the speeches by the meeting president and the CEO. These speeches will be available live to all interested individuals on our website. The “closed portion” of the AGM will begin following the speech by the CEO. Only Deutsche Post AG shareholders will be able to attend this part of the meeting. They will have to use their individual log in data to do so.

The deadline for registering for this year’s Deutsche Post AG AGM is midnight (CEST) on August 20, 2020. Registrations submitted afterward will not be processed.

Shareholders who are authorized to vote are those individuals who are listed in the shareholder register on the day of the AGM and who have registered for the meeting no later than midnight (CEST) on August 20, 2020.

The invitation documents to the AGM are expected to be sent to shareholders entered into our shareholder register beginning on August 5, 2020.

Starting in 2020, we are giving you an opportunity to receive the invitation to the AGM by e-mail in addition to delivery as a Plusbrief. In taking this step, we are responding to the growing interest of our shareholders in digital solutions, options that enable them to access the invitation to the AGM wherever they happen to be. We can also jointly help to sustainably use raw materials.

To register for e-mail delivery, please visit the website or register directly at www.dpdhl.de/hv-mail with your shareholder number and access code. You will find both in the registration forms for this year’s AGM.

Every shareholder who is authorized to attend the AGM is able to submit questions electronically. You may use the online service to submit questions regarding the AGM’s agenda.

Shareholders or their proxies can submit their questions via the online service after they have registered for the AGM by the deadline. Shareholders can receive online access by entering their shareholder number and the related individual access code on our website. Questions must be submitted to Deutsche Post AG via the company’s online service by midnight (CEST) on August 24, 2020. Questions may not be submitted afterward. Please use the Fragenaufnahme (submit question) button in the online service. As part of the question-answering process, the Board of Management shall reserve the right to cite the name of the questioner, provided that the questioner has not expressly objected to the practice of being identified as the questioner.

Since shareholders who are authorized to attend the AGM and their proxies will not take part in person, they can exercise their voting rights only by casting postal ballots or by using proxies and issuing instructions.

Yes, you may also submit postal ballots this year. There are two ways to do so: You can use our response form with reply envelope or our online service.

If you would like us to change your address information, please send us the detached portion of the invitation letter with the included reply envelope for the purpose of changing the address. You can also change your address online on our website or arrange for it through your custodian bank.

The Board of Management and the Supervisory Board are proposing a dividend of €1.15 per share for financial year 2019, unchanged from the previous year. If accepted by the AGM, the dividend will be paid on September 1, 2020, by Clearstream Banking AG via custodian banks.

The dividend will be paid on the basis of legal requirements three days after the AGM. Deutsche Post AG’s AGM will be held on August 27, 2020. The dividend will be paid on September 1, 2020.

The dividend for 2019 will be paid partly from the contribution account for tax purposes as defined in Section 27 of the Körperschaftsteuergesetz (KStG - German corporate tax act). Some of the dividend will be tax free as a result. The exact amount is still being calculated and will be announced soon before the payment. International shareholders will be subject to the tax law of their individual countries of residence.

The invitation to Deutsche Post AG’s AGM is published approximately six weeks prior to the AGM in the Bundesanzeiger (German federal gazette) and is then also available on our website.

There can be many reasons. Please contact our shareholders’ services at +49 (0)228 182-63630.

Shares can always be bought and/or sold. There is no lodgement day or lock for registered shares. Please note, however: shareholders need to hold the shares in their portfolio on the day of the AGM so that they can receive the dividend payment after the AGM. However, please clarify the details with your custodian bank.

Immediately upon receipt we shall publish applications and nominations that need to be made available on our website.

The AGM will be held in German.

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) for financial year 2018 was held on May 15, 2019 at the World Conference Center Bonn, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 2, 53113 Bonn, Germany. The dividend payment was on 20 May, 2019.

May 15, 2019 – Broadcast

Broadcast of the Annual General Meeting until the conclusion of the CEO’s address.

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) for financial year 2017 was held on April 24, 2018 at the World Conference Center Bonn, Germany. The dividend payment was on 27 April 2018.

April 24, 2018 – Broadcast

Broadcast of the Annual General Meeting until the conclusion of the CEO’s address.

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) for financial year 2016 was hold at the RuhrCongress, Stadionring 20, 44791 Bochum, Germany, on 28 April 2017.

April 28, 2017 – Broadcast

Broadcast of the Annual General Meeting until the conclusion of the CEO’s address.