Voting Rights Announcements | 29 September 2008 16:48


Hannover Rückversicherung AG: Release according to Article 26, Section 1 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] with the objective of Europe-wide distribution

Hannover Rückversicherung AG / Release of an announcement according to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG [the German Securities Trading Act] (share)

Release of a Voting Rights announcement, transmitted by DGAP - a company of
EquityStory AG.
The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
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On September 26, 2008, UBS AG, Zuerich, Switzerland informed us according
to Article 21, Section 1 of the WpHG that via selling of shares its voting
rights in Hannover Rueckversicherung AG, Hannover, Germany, ISIN:
DE0008402215, WKN: 840221 fell below the 3% limit of the voting rights on
September 22, 2008 and amounted to 0.26% at that time; this corresponded to
310,014 voting rights. Thereof, according to Article 22, Section 1,
Sentence 1, No. 1 of the WpHG, 63,287 voting rights (0.05%) were attributed
to the company.

29.09.2008  Financial News transmitted by DGAP
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Language:     English
Issuer:       Hannover Rückversicherung AG
              Karl-Wiechert-Allee 50
              30625 Hannover
              Deutschland
Internet:     www.hannover-re.com
 
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