Ballack, who has not played for last weekend's FA Cup winners Chelsea for a month after undergoing an ankle operation, was called up along with Per Mertesacker and Mario Gomez, who have also recovered from injury.

Loew will, however, have to do without the injured trio of striker Lukas Podolski and midfielders Bastian Schweinsteiger and Tim Borowski, who are all sidelined with knee injuries, for the matches on June 2 and June 6.

Germany lead Group D with 13 points, equal on points with the Czech Republic and the Republic of Ireland, who have played one and two matches more respectively.

Goalkeepers: Jens Lehmann (Arsenal/ENG), Timo Hildebrand (Stuttgart)
Defenders: Gonzalo Castro (Bayer Leverkusen), Manuel Friedrich (Mainz 05), Clemens Fritz (Werder Bremen), Per Mertesacker (Werder Bremen), Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich), Christoph Metzelder (Borussia Dortmund), Marcell Jansen (Borussia Monchengladbach)
Midfielders: Michael Ballack (Chelsea/ENG), Torsten Frings (Werder Bremen), Roberto Hilbert (Stuttgart), Thomas Hitzlsperger (Stuttgart), Simon Rolfes (Bayer Leverkusen), Bernd Schneider (Bayer Leverkusen), Jan Schlaudraff (Alemania Aachen), Piotr Trochowski (Hamburg)

Strikers: Mario Gomez (Stuttgart), Patrick Helmes (Cologne), Miroslav Klose (Werder Bremen), Kevin Kuranyi (Schalke 04).