Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) are trying in different ways to calm German-Israeli relations.
Steinmeier wants to have a moderating effect on the dispute between the relatives of the Israeli victims of the terrorist attack on the 1972 Olympic Games committed by Palestinians and the German government.
Eckhart Lohse
Head of the parliamentary editorial office in Berlin.
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However, he does not want to get involved in the negotiations about the compensation, but rather leaves it to the federal government.
This was reported to the FAZ from the Office of the Federal President.
"The Federal President is particularly concerned about a trusting and close exchange with the survivors of the 1972 Olympic attack," said Bellevue Palace.
Steinmeier was "basically ready for a personal exchange with the bereaved."
Meeting with Bärbel Bas planned
In what form this can take place, if the relatives want it, is open.
The Israeli news site Ynetnews.com had reported that the President was planning a short-term trip to Israel to meet with relatives.
There are probably no concrete travel plans yet, but a trip is not ruled out either.
It would also be conceivable that Steinmeier would send a letter to the relatives.
"However, the negotiations on acknowledgment payments to the surviving dependents are the task of the federal government," said the President's Office.
One day after the anniversary of the September 5, 1972 attack, Israeli President Isaac Herzog wants to address the Bundestag.
As the FAZ was confirmed by the Bundestag, Herzog will address the German Parliament on September 6 as part of his visit to Germany.
He then meets the President of the Bundestag, Bärbel Bas (SPD).
Meanwhile, Scholz called Israeli Prime Minister Jair Lapid on Thursday and described the statements made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Berlin as "intolerable and completely unacceptable".
Abbas had spoken of Israel's "massacres" of Palestinians and called them a "Holocaust".