May 19, 2026, 11:16 amMay 19, 2026, 11:16 am
Germany’s former chancellor Angela Merkel has also followed what has happened in recent weeks to the humpback whale “Timmy”, who was stranded on the Baltic Sea and later found dead in Denmark.
“I ask you, there was no way around it,” said the politician on Monday when asked about the topic on the WDR podcast “0630”. The audience reacted to her answer with laughter during the recording at the re:publica digital conference in Berlin.
Stralsund ultimately “played a big role” in the discussion about the rescue, said Merkel. “The Maritime Museum has the greatest technical knowledge.” The city is part of the constituency in the federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which it represented in the Bundestag in Berlin from 1990 to 2021.
This is how Angela Merkel would have ultimately acted:
In addition to the whale “Timmy,” the Kaulitz twins were also a topic. Angela Merkel was asked to rank various professions, including whether she could imagine working as a manager for Bill Kaulitz and Tom Kaulitz. The two have already asked her several times. However, with a swipe at the moderator, she said that – unlike her – she had never agreed to it before. (sda/dpa/emk)
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