Funke managing director Bianca Pohlmann announced: This tasteless and misleading article should never have appeared.
As a result of the publication of this article, immediate personnel consequences will be drawn.
The strapline added: it sounded deceptively real.
Then Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher, pictured in 2005PAUL CROCK/AFP via Getty Images
Schumacher suffered a brain injury in December 2013 while skiing.
He has not been seen in public since then, with his family taking measures to protect his privacy.
