A Berlin court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder in a long-running dispute over his former office in the Bundestag, or parliament. He was chancellor from 1998 to 2005 and party chairman of the Social Democrats from 1999 to 2004. Usually, a former chancellor would have the right to an office with staff but the Berlin Administrative Court ruled against this in May 2023 and Schröder appealed. His latest lawsuit was dismissed on Thursday. The Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court found that while the state does have a decades-long practice of pay…