Double world champion Paul Biedermann will lead a 33-strong German team to contest the 2009 European short-course championships in Istanbul this month.

World champion and world record holder Britta Steffen is unavailable for the women's squad, having preferred to concentrate her training for the 2010 long-course Europeans.

WOMEN (15)

• Dorothea Brandt (SG Neukölln Berlin)
• Karoline Degenhardt (SV Würzburg 05)
• Isabelle Härle (SV Nikar Heidelberg)
• Franziska Hentke (SV Halle/Saale)
• Franziska Jansen (SV Nikar Heidelberg)
• Lena Kalla (SV Würzburg 05)
• Jenny Mensing (SC Wiesbaden)
• Theresa Michalak (SV Halle/Saale)
• Sarah Poewe (SG Bayer Wuppertal/Uerdingen/Dormagen)
• Caroline Ruhna (SG Essen)
• Daniela Samulski (SG Essen)
• Janne Schäfer (SV Nikar Heidelberg)
• Nina Schiffer (SG Dortmund)
• Daniela Schreiber (SV Halle/Saale)
• Lisa Vitting (SG Essen)

MEN (18)

• Morten Ahme (SV Poseidon Hamburg)
• Paul Biedermann (SV Halle/Saale)
• Dimitri Colupaev (SV Undine Mainz)
• Markus Deibler (TG Bieberach)
• Steffen Deibler (Hamburger SC)
• Marco Di Carli (SG Frankfurt)
• Johannes Dietrich (SC Wiesbaden)
• Hendrik Feldwehr (SG Essen)
• Christoph Fildebrandt (SG Bayer Wuppertal/Uerdingen/Dormagen)
• Lucien Haßdenteufel (SSG Saar Max Ritter)
• Stefan Herbst (SSG Leipzig)
• Marco Koch (DSW 1912 Darmstadt)
• Christian Kubusch (SC Magdeburg)
• Helge Meeuw (SG Frankfurt)
• Johannes Neumann (SC Wiesbaden)
• Thomas Rupprath (SV Würzburg 05)
• Felix Wolf (Potsdamer SV)
• Jan Wolfgarten (SV Würzburg 05)