This is because prior to his resignation four months earlier, as Chancellor of West Germany, he held the most powerful political office in the country. His name is Willy Brandt. These were interesting ...

Merz will need a majority of all members of the house to be elected as post-World War II Germany's 10th chancellor, ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become Germany's 10th post-World War II chancellor, the culmination of a long political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader, Angela Merkel ...

Said West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer: “The federal government reaffirms its demand for the holding of free . . . elections. It demands that the Soviet-zone government answer this proposal ...