In a new Bild am Sonntag poll, 66% of Germans opposed any more (German) state aid for GM.
The resignations were announced hours after a German newspaper, Bild, published a report alleging key information over the incident had been withheld.
According to a report in Bild newspaper, Baumann, whose contract expires this summer, is contemplating retiring at the age of 33.
Whereas British tabloids are sold on newsstands, which makes sensationalist headlines even more important, Bild is a quasi-monopoly.
Shortly after Mr Blair visited Germany, Bild, a popular daily newspaper (broadly Germany's answer to the New York Post or the Sun), published a paean of praise to the low taxes and low unemployment of modern Britain.
The call to Bild had been a serious mistake, he acknowledged, but he was only trying to protect his family.
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The popular German newspaper Bild said the news was a bitter blow to the chancellor, and wondered whether she would need to find a new education minister at the start of her election campaign.
He told the Web site of the Bild newspaper in Germany that the story was a media invention.
Behind those two heavy hitters is German visual artist, Gerhard Richter whose piece, Abstraktes Bild, set an auction record price for a painting by a living artist at 34 million dollars.
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Mr Wulff said he had called Bild's chief editor simply to ask for a day's delay before publication to enable him to return from an official trip to the Gulf.
In an interview with Bild newspaper in Germany, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said a decision had yet to be taken in Berlin on a government boycott of matches in Ukraine.
"27 countries, 23 languages, 67 years of peace: we may all be a little bit proud of that, " says the best-selling Bild newspaper on its front page.
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Koons' Tulip became the second highest figure paid for a living artist, following on from Gerhard Richter's 1994 painting Abstraktes Bild, which sold in October.
These liberals blanch at the thought of Murdoch somehow getting hold of Bild Zeitung, Germany's popular tabloid newspaper, and turning into a Teutonic version of the New York Post.
Germany's largest daily newspaper, BILD, has called the situation surrounding Berlin's new signature airport a "disgrace for Germany, " and quoted several international reports on the problems with the construction process.
German newspaper Bild reported that Schumacher, who turns 41 in January, had already agreed a deal, thought to be worth 7m euros, with Mercedes in principle.
On Saturday, a prominent member of Germany's governing CDU party, Hartwig Fischer, told Bild newspaper that products tainted with horsemeat should be distributed to the poor.
Even Bild, Germany's leading tabloid, elevated Mr Draghi as an honorary German, depicting him with a Prussian helmet.
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And on Friday, former F1 driver Ralf Schumacher told German newspaper Bild that he had been in talks with the team about an F1 comeback, saying Stefanovich made "a very serious and purposeful impression".
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