Under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime, the role of women in Germany was strictly defined and heavily influenced by the ideology of the National Socialist Party (NSDAP). The Nazis viewed women ...

A woman is killed by a partner or former partner nearly every two days in Germany. Activists have called on the government to do more to end violence against women.

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens have rejected calls for benefit cuts from leading economic expert Veronika Grimm, ...

Andrea Nahles, the plain-speaking 47-year-old leader of the Social Democrats in Germany's parliament, is set to be given the task of re-energising a 154-year-old party that has alienated much of ...

Kurt Beck, the leader of Germany's left-wing SPD party, which is part of Chancellor Angela Merkel's "grand coalition" government, has been hit hard by new polling data suggesting that even a ...

He compounded his problems by failing to pick any women for team of four top advisers. The SPD is about 10 points behind Merkel's Christian Democrats in most opinion polls ahead of the 2013 election.

The general secretary of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) on Wednesday welcomed the result of an online ballot which saw members overwhelmingly approve a coalition agreement with Friedrich ...