The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany ... Merz has always championed conservative values and stressed the importance of family. He met his wife Charlotte, who is now a judge, ...

Hailing from Sauerland, a traditionally Catholic and socially conservative region in western Germany, Friedrich Merz has long embodied the values of pre-reunification West Germany—strong transatlantic ...

His father served as a local judge, as does Friedrich Merz's wife Charlotte to this day. The younger Merz joined the CDU while still at school. In an interview 25 years ago with German newspaper ...

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory ...

Friedrich Merz, the man expected to become Germany's next ... He has been married for more than 40 years to Charlotte Merz, a judge, with whom he has three adult children. He was elected to the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role ... He once told an interviewer that he would ...

Friedrich Merz, who is on course to become post-World ... values and stressed the importance of family. He met his wife Charlotte, who is now a judge, while he was studying law.

“Friedrich Merz only has this one shot,” said Andrea ... “It used to be he’d come home nights,” Mr. Merz’s wife, Charlotte, told a laughing crowd at a rally on Friday in the western ...

But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has ...

Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

At six foot six (198 centimetres) tall, Merz stands out in a crowd and is a licenced pilot who sometimes flies his own private jet. He has been married for more than 40 years to Charlotte Merz ...