German Bundesliga table after Saturday afternoon's games (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against points): Bayern Munich 31 27 3 1 90 14 84 Borussia Dortmund 30 18 7 5 74 35 61 Bayer Leverkusen 31 16 8 7 59 38 56 ------------------------------------------------ Schalke 04 30 13 7 10 50 46 46 ------------------------------------------------ Freiburg 31 12 9 10 40 37 45 Eintracht Frankfurt 30 13 6 11 43 42 45

German Bundesliga result on Friday: Greuther Fuerth 2 (Djurdjic 41,83) Hanover 96 3 (Abdellaoue 36, Hoffmann 71, da Silva Pinto 87) Saturday Bayern Munich v Freiburg, Bayer Leverkusen v Werder Bremen, VfL Wolfsburg v Borussia M'gladbach, Hoffenheim v Nuremberg, Augsburg v VfB Stuttgart, Fortuna Duesseldorf v Borussia Dortmund Sunday Mainz 05 v Eintracht Frankfurt, Schalke 04 v Hamburg afp

The late German actor who starred in the wildly popular television crime show "Derrick" was a member of Hitler's notorious Waffen SS, the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported Friday. Horst Tappert, who played the beloved baggy-eyed detective from 1974 to 1998 in a programme that ran in more than 100 countries, was a member of an SS tank regiment on the Russian front, according to the report. According to archives listing next-of-kin for Wehrmacht soldiers, Tappert joined the Waffen SS at the latest in 1943, the newspaper said. Tappert died in 2008.

German trucker MAN, majority owned by European car giant Volkswagen, said Friday it got off to a difficult start to 2013, running up a loss in the first quarter and a drop in sales. MAN said in its first-quarter report that the period from January to March marked a "difficult start to a challenging year " and economic conditions "will remain difficult in fiscal 2013." MAN said it booked a first-quarter net loss of 337 million euros ($439 million) compared with a profit of 130 million euros a year earlier.