DHARAMSALA: Dalai Lama, Tibet's Spiritual and Temporal leader will visit Germany from 15 - 19 May 2008 at the invitation of Tibet Initiative Deutschland, Germany's largest Tibet support group.Dalai Lama, the Nobel Peace Laureate will visit four major German cultural and historical cities as well as Berlin, the capital of Germany.

This is His 33rd visit to Germany and had been planned since last year. The theme of the visit is 'No Peace without Human Rights'.On arrival in Frankfurt this morning, Roland Koch, the Chief Minister of Hesse state of Germany called on  Dalai Lama.

Dr Norbert Lammert, the Speaker of the German Parliament and Dr Jurgen Ruttgers, the Chief Minister of North-Rhine Westphalia state of Germany will separately call on him in Bochum.

Tickets for the public talks in the four major cities by  Dalai Lama have been sold out. Following are the details of the public talks. Following his talks,  Dalai Lama on 19 May will leave for Berlin. The German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Ms Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul will call on His Holiness at the hotel.

Subsequently His Holiness will meet  Volker Kauder, Chairman of Christian Democratic Union and Holger Haibach, the Chairman of the Parliament's Cross-Party Tibet Group.

Dalai Lama will also meet with leaders of the German Green Party in the Parliament.

At the invitation of German Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee,  Dalai Lama will address its members, member of the Committee for Human Rights, Parliament's Cross-Party Tibet Group as well as the Parliament's German Chinese Group.

In the evening, Dalai Lama will address a Tibet Solidarity Rally in front of the famous Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Tibet Initiative Deutschland and the Tibetan Association of Germany are organising the rally to express German people's solidarity with  Dalai Lama and the Tibetan people. Dalai Lama leaves on 20 May morning for London.