Daimler said Wilhelm will join the Stuttgart-based company's management board on April 1, 2019, adding that he would take over responsibility for its finance and controlling unit after the company's annual shareholders' meeting on May 22, 2019.

Wilhelm is currently chief financial officer at Airbus, Daimler said.

(Reporting by Edward Taylor,; Editing by Tassilo Hummel)

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