BERLIN – Former German President Roman Herzog has been commemorated in a state funeral in Berlin for his services to the country during his tenure in the 1990s. Lutheran Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (L-R) The family with Christine Strobl, daughter of Wolfgang Schauble, his wife Ingeborg Schauble and Thomas Strobl, Minister of ...

Obituaries, funeral services, grave maintenance fees: Germany has an array of laws and traditions when it comes to death and burial. But new trends are bringing change. Deciding on an urn or casket, ...

Coffin or urn? If you die in Germany, you will probably end up in a box in a public cemetery. Like it or not. The nation has some of the strictest funeral laws in western Europe. Now there's a ...

Zev Stub is the Times of Israel's Diaspora Affairs correspondent. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, former chancellor Angela Merkel, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and other German officials ...

Horst Köhler spent most of his early life as a refugee and became a highly popular president. He was also lauded for his post-presidency activism. Köhler passed away earlier this month after a short ...

Thousands of mourners attended Wednesday the funeral ceremony of a German student of Turkish descent, who was brutally attacked by thugs for defending two other girls from harassment. Tugce Albayrak, ...

Several hundred people, including top politicians and family members, attended the funeral on Friday for the late German statesman Wolfgang Schäuble. The former interior and finance minister shaped ...