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

As Germans prepare to vote on Feb. 23, an almighty argument over whether mainstream parties should work with the ...

He held the ceremonial post of German president after a finance-focused career. Shortly into his second term, he became the ...

Horst Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before stunning the ...

Once little-known among his fellow Germans, Mr Kohler became a popular head of state, often positioning himself as an ...

The couple have three children. For a few years ... that he lost out to Angela Merkel in a party power struggle. Merkel, the understated quantum chemist from the former communist east, and ...

Germany's conservative opposition party is set to team up with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to tackle migration - prompting anger from former Chancellor Angela Merkel. CDU leader ...

He declared that Germany faced "giant challenges" and that "our future and the future of our children is at stake ... to re-elected German chancellor Angela Merkel during a ceremony at the ...