Helmut Schlesinger, the former president of the Bundesbank who has died at the age of 100, was regarded as the German central ...

Pöhl was reappointed by Helmut Kohl in 1987 but the two fell out over Kohl’s insistence, as a key element of reunification, ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolves parliament, setting new elections for Feb. 23 after Olaf Scholz's ...

Despite being one of the most powerful women in global politics, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s feminism has ...

It happened under Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1972, Helmut Kohl in 1982 and Gerhard Schroeder in 2005. Schroeder used the confidence vote to engineer an early election narrowly won by center-right ...