Deutsche Annington Immobilien SE announced that Manuela Better, Lutz Basse, Dr. Florian Funck and Christian Ulbrich are to be appointed to the supervisory board. Manuela Better is the former CEO of Hypo Real Estate (HRE) as well as a former member of the board of directors the division of the Deutsche Pfandbrief AG (pbb). She was in charge of real estate analysis, marketing and rental.

Better was responsible for risk management at Hypo Real Estate (HRE) for many years and has comprehensive expertise in real estate valuation. Better is also a member of the supervisory board of the AXA Konzern AG as well as the Deutsche EuroShop AG. Lutz Basse is an expert of many year's experience in the German housing industry.

His responsibilities focus on value-oriented real estate management based on a high level of customer satisfaction, neighbourhood-focused district development concepts and appropriate rents as a precondition for full occupancy and sustainable economic success. Basse has additional supervisory roles in companies in the real estate and service industries. Besides that he is also active in housing industry associations.

Dr. Florian Funck has been a member of the executive board at Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH since 2011. In this role, he manages the areas of controlling, accounting, taxes, finances and general services.

The achievement of the placement of a Eurobond by Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH and the optimization of the maturity profile happened under his direction. He was also responsible for the significant reduction in Haniel's net financial liabilities.

Funck is also represented on the Supervisory Board of Metro AG and TAKKT AG. Christian Ulbrich is CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). He is also a member of the executive board of Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. Ulbrich is an expert knowledge and a broad network within the German and global real estate industry and it's capital markets.

Upon their legal appointment, the new Supervisory Board members follow Robert Nicolas Barr, Arjan Breure, Fraser Duncan and Tim Pryce, who will step down from office as representatives of the former major shareholder, Terra Firma, on August 20, 2014.