Morning papers suspended the Saxony-Anhalt aftermath for the 25th anniversary of 11 September 2001, reconstructing the attack minute-by-minute, from Atta's hijacking to the towers' collapse, and foregrounding survivors like firefighter Joseph Pfeifer and Düsseldorfer Klaus Borchert in the South Tower alongside the Bochum trace of pilot Ziad Jarrah. Legacy pieces questioned whether the terrorists had won, counted the War on Terror's dead, and traced normalized emergency laws and Frankfurt's tower boom.
By afternoon attention returned to Chancellor Merz. After fuel-price attacks, FAZ and others described a Union budget revolt, a CDU local branch's brandbrief threatening exit, and the resignation of deputy general secretary Stumpp, with speculation about Söder.
A third thread followed the Houthis' seizure in Bab al-Mandab, framed as a threat to oil routes and German pump prices.