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EANS-Voting Rights: HeidelbergCement AG / Release according to article 27 a, section 2 WpHG (Securities Trading Act) with the aim of a Europe-wide distribution

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  Notification of voting rights transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer is
  responsible for the content of this announcement.
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05.10.2009

Person/company obliged to make the notification:

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Name:    Deutsche Bank AG
Place:   Frankfurt
State:   Germany

Company data:
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Name:    HeidelbergCement AG
Address: Berliner Straße 6, 69120 Heidelberg
Place:   Heidelberg
State:   Germany

On 28 September 2009 Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt, Germany, notified us according
to Sec. 21 of the German Securities Trading Act that, in the course of the
settlement of the capital increase, it has exceeded and fallen
below the 10% threshold of voting rights in HeidelbergCement AG.

Further to this notification, on 5 October 2009, Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt,
Germany, has notified us pursuant Sec. 27a of the German Securities Trading Act
that:

"1. the intention of the excess of the 10% threshold in voting rights of
HeidelbergCement AG was not strategic and did not serve the purpose of making
trading profit, but to technically settle the capital increase of
HeidelbergCement AG,
2. it does not intend to obtain further voting rights in HeidelbergCement AG
during the next 12 months, except for general trading activity in the normal
course of its business,
3. it does not intend to influence the staffing of the management or supervisory
board or any other controlling committee of HeidelbergCement AG, and
4. it does not intend to significantly change the capital structure, the equity
debt ratio or the dividend policy of HeidelbergCement AG.

The purchase of the voting rights was financed using own resources."

Heidelberg, 5 October 2009
The Managing Board

Ende der Mitteilung                               euro adhoc
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Further inquiry note:

Branche: Construction & Property
ISIN: DE0006047004
WKN: 604700
Index: Midcap Market Index, MDAX, CDAX, Classic All Share, HDAX,
Prime All Share
Börsen: Frankfurt / regulated dealing/prime standard
Berlin / free trade
Hamburg / free trade
Hannover / free trade
Stuttgart / regulated dealing
Düsseldorf / regulated dealing
München / regulated dealing

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