Deutsche Telekom AG - The 2009 financial year

Changes in the composition of the Board of Management. In agreement with the Supervisory Board, Dr. Karl-Gerhard Eick resigned his seat on the Board of Management with effect from midnight on February 28, 2009. At its meeting on February 26, 2009, the Supervisory Board appointed Mr. Timotheus Höttges as the new Member of the Board of Management for Finance effective March 1, 2009 and Mr. Niek Jan van Damme as the new Member of the Board of Management for T-Home, Sales & Service, also effective March 1, 2009. The establishment of a new Board of Management department for Southern and Eastern Europe was also approved at the meeting on February 26, 2009 to account for the growing significance of the Southeastern European region and to bundle responsibility for the existing, integrated operations in the region following the take-over of management control of the Greek company OTE. Mr. Guido Kerkhoff was appointed to the Board of Management effective March 1, 2009 and took over responsibility for this newly created department. By its resolution dated April 29, 2009, the Supervisory Board transferred integrated responsibility for Sales, Marketing and Service in standard business with consumers and business customers in Germany to Mr. van Damme. At the same time, Mr. Hamid Akhavan was appointed Chief Operating Officer effective July 1, 2009 with responsibility for the mobile communi- cations companies in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Austria, Poland, and the Czech Republic, as well as Group-wide responsibility for the areas of Technology, IT, Products and Innovation for standard business, and Procurement. In December 2009, Mr. Akhavan asked the Supervisory Board to relieve him of his duties to allow him to take on a new professional challenge. The Supervisory Board agreed to this request effective February 15, 2009 at its meeting on December 17, 2009. The Supervisory Board resolved that effective February 15, 2010 responsibility for the mobile communications subsidiaries in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Austria, Poland, and the Czech Republic will be taken over, in an acting capacity, by Mr. Kerkhoff, Member of the Board of Management for Southern and Eastern Europe, and Mr. Akhavan’s remaining respon- sibilities will be taken over, in an acting capacity, by Mr. Clemens, Member of the Board of Management for T-Systems. On February 24, 2010, the Supervisory Board adopted the Board of Management’s proposal to permanently extend Mr. Kerkhoff’s sphere of responsibilities with effect from April 1, 2010, adding the mobile subsidiaries in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Austria, Poland, and the Czech Republic. The department headed by Mr. Kerkhoff will be renamed “Europe” from the effective date. Changes in the composition of the Supervisory Board. There were no changes to the composition of the Supervisory Board during the 2009 financial year. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Reitzle and Prof. Dr. Wulf von Schimmelmann resigned their seats on the Supervisory Board effective December 31, 2009. Dr. Wulf Bernotat and Prof. h.c. (CHN) Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. Ulrich Middelmann have been appointed as shareholder representatives on the Supervisory Board by the relevant district court effective January 1, 2010 until the 2010 shareholders’ meeting. The Supervisory Board would like to thank the former members of both Boards for the effort they committed to the good of the Company. Review of annual financial statements of the parent company and consolidated financial statements for the 2009 financial year. The Board of Management prepared the annual financial statements and the management report as well as the consolidated financial statements and the Group management report of Deutsche Telekom AG on February 8, 2010 and submitted them, together with the proposal for the appropriation of net income, on time to the Supervisory Board. 35To our shareholders Supervisory Board’s report