Friedrich Merz, the 69-year-old veteran German politician with a hardline stance on migration and an expensive aviation hobby ...

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

But who is the old-school conservative who wants to rid his party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), of former leader Angela ... back of a beer coaster. A growing feud with Merkel eventually ...

Friedrich Merz is a familiar face of his conservative party's old guard. Politically, he has never come across as ...

The leading candidates to become Germany's next chancellor have faced off in a testy four-way TV debate, as the country prepares to head to the polls in just six days' time. The fallout from last week ...