Former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder appeared in a Berlin court on Thursday for a hearing in a long-running dispute over his former office in the Bundestag, or parliament. Schröder is calling on the Bundestag to fund an office and staff, after losing in the first instance at the administrative court in May 2023. Schröder arrived at the Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court (OVG) around 10 minutes before the start of the hearing with his wife Soyeon Schröder-Kim and greeted his lawyers in the courtroom. He was chancellor from 1998 to 2005 and party chairman of the Social Democrats…