Merz's trips come the day after his historic defeat in the first round of voting in the German parliament, the Bundestag.

He reorganised the ‘German’ lands to 39 larger states. He also established the Confederation of the Rhine, which brought further unification to the most influential German states. The German ...

The outgoing president of the International Table Tennis Federation, Thomas Weikert, has been touted as a strong candidate for the presidency of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB).