Sidelined by Angela Merkel in the early 2000s, Friedrich Merz left politics for 20 years until she announced her retirement in 2018.

As the two frontrunners in Germany’s general election prepare to go head to head in the first televised debate, the former chancellor’s intervention is a sign of the concern within the political ...

His father served as a local judge ... that he lost out to Angela Merkel in a party power struggle. Merkel, the understated quantum chemist from the former communist east, and Merz, the overtly ...

O n 1 February 2021, I went into hiding. That day, Myanmar was seized in a military coup. The country’s de facto head of state, Aung San Suu Kyi, and senior figures from the National League for ...

Academy Award winner Rami Malek and Olivier Award winer Indira Varma star in a new production of Oedipus at the Old Vic, and ...

Angela Merkel has praised Horst Koehler for his ... Germany and in the energy and creativity of its people. The married father of two promoted Germany as a “land of ideas” that would ...

Germany's former president Horst Koehler, who also once headed the International Monetary Fund and was a strong backer of ...

Friedrich Merz, nemesis of former Chancellor Angela Merkel, is confident that he will win the upcoming election — despite his ...

He became Germany's head of state, a mostly ceremonial role, after being put forward by then opposition leader Angela Merkel ... The married father of two promoted Germany as a "land of ideas ...

When Angela Merkel rose to lead the CDU parliamentary ... western Germany — and is both a Catholic and a lawyer, like his father before him. To this day, he lives not far from the place where ...

In trying to avoid the mistakes of the past, Germany’s liberal politicians are pushing their country right back toward them.