German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become the next chancellor, is a millionaire ex-corporate lawyer who ...

Merz is an old-school German conservative. He’s close to the business elite of the former West and he’s built his career around opposition to public borrowing and immigration, positions that ...

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who hopes to become the next chancellor, is a millionaire ex-corporate lawyer who ...

the old-school conservative is "currently the CDU's answer" to the recent electoral successes of the AfD, which is polling at close to 20 percent. Merz was born on November 11, 1955 and has been ...