Overview
- Former chancellors Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz are expected to attend alongside Germany’s constitutional leaders, according to Bundestag sources.
- All living successors to Süssmuth as Bundestag president have confirmed attendance, including Wolfgang Thierse, Norbert Lammert and Bärbel Bas, with Sabine Bergmann-Pohl also registered.
- All federal ministers have signed up to attend except Housing Minister Verena Hubertz, who is on maternity leave.
- An ecumenical service at St. Hedwig's Cathedral is scheduled for 10:00, followed by the memorial in the Bundestag plenary at 12:00 with speeches by Bundestag President Julia Klöckner and Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
- President Steinmeier will participate, author Heribert Prantl will deliver an address, and confirmed guests include Berlin mayor Kai Wegner, state leaders Manuela Schwesig and Dietmar Woidke, nine state parliament presidents including Ilse Aigner, representatives of the Apostolic Nuncio and 19 embassies, and the heads of the RKI, BfArM and the German Poland Institute.