diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 9e82153..2e740c0 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Released 2.4.45 2017-09-xx
 Changes since 2.4.44:
 
 Lib/
+* Fixed reraising of wrong exception in SimpleLDAPObject._ldap_call()
+  (thanks to Aigars Grins)
 
 Tests/
 * removed work-around in t_cext.py
@@ -1511,4 +1513,4 @@ Released 2.0.0pre02 2002-02-01
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
 Released 1.10alpha3 2000-09-19
 
-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.468 2017/10/09 14:40:48 stroeder Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.469 2017/10/09 14:54:10 stroeder Exp $
diff --git a/Lib/ldap/ldapobject.py b/Lib/ldap/ldapobject.py
index 1289914..6a39fa3 100644
--- a/Lib/ldap/ldapobject.py
+++ b/Lib/ldap/ldapobject.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 See https://www.python-ldap.org/ for details.
 
-\$Id: ldapobject.py,v 1.165 2017/09/04 14:59:12 stroeder Exp $
+\$Id: ldapobject.py,v 1.166 2017/10/09 14:54:10 stroeder Exp $
 
 Compability:
 - Tested with Python 2.0+ but should work with Python 1.5.x
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ def _ldap_call(self,func,*args,**kwargs):
       finally:
         self._ldap_object_lock.release()
     except LDAPError, e:
+      exc_type,exc_value,exc_traceback = sys.exc_info()
       try:
         if not e.args[0].has_key('info') and e.args[0].has_key('errno'):
           e.args[0]['info'] = strerror(e.args[0]['errno'])
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ def _ldap_call(self,func,*args,**kwargs):
         pass
       if __debug__ and self._trace_level>=2:
         self._trace_file.write('=> LDAPError - %s: %s\n' % (e.__class__.__name__,str(e)))
-      raise
+      raise exc_type,exc_value,exc_traceback
     else:
       if __debug__ and self._trace_level>=2:
         if not diagnostic_message_success is None: