In 1871, William of Prussia was declared the first German emperor. His reign ended upon his death March 9, 1888, and he was ...

German soccer icon Lothar Matthaus made headlines by naming three non-European players as the greatest of all time. Lothar Matthaus, a World Cup champion and Ballon d’Or winner, remains a towering ...

The ruling earlier this month capped a decade of legal wrangling over the home, located in Wandlitz, outside Berlin.

Johann Heinrich Zimmermann (1741-1805) was one of three German sailors aboard Captain James Cook’s ships HMS Resolution and ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Throughout history, small states have come out of nowhere, and rapidly become great powers. This was the ...

With Inauguration Day a few days away, let’s pick up where we left off 13 weeks ago, just before Election Day. The mother in this columnist’s German exchange family, having started school in 1933 and ...

German soccer legend Miroslav Klose, known for his record-breaking World Cup performances, revealed who he believes is the ...

The man accused of killing five people and injuring more than 200 others by ramming a car into a crowded German Christmas market had a history of making anti-Islam statements, which had grown ...

A German diplomat who was found dead in Pakistan’s capital was an undercover intelligence officer, according to a media ...

By Don Heinrich Tolzmann Special to NKyTribune Thriftiness is a trait Germans are well known for, as it was considered a ...