Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig 161.5.clients.your-server.de. NS
Answer
161.5.clients.your-server.de. 3 NS ns3.second-ns.de.
161.5.clients.your-server.de. 3 NS ns.second-ns.com.
161.5.clients.your-server.de. 3 NS ns1.your-server.de.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns.second-ns.com. 4 A 213.239.204.242
ns3.second-ns.de. 4 A 193.47.99.4
ns.second-ns.com. 4 AAAA 2a01:4f8:0:a101:0:0:b:1
ns3.second-ns.de. 4 AAAA 2001:67c:192c:0:0:0:add:b3
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0