Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig umleitung.de. NS
Answer
umleitung.de. 5 NS ns4.netuse.de.
umleitung.de. 5 NS ns1.netuse.de.
umleitung.de. 5 NS ns2.netuse.de.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0