Wordpress Date Format inkl Days to German

gistfile1.txt

$date = date_create_from_format('j-m-d', get_the_date('j-m-d'));
$weekday = get_weekday_german($date);

function get_weekday_german($date) {

    $weeksdays = array(
        'Sunday' => 'Sonntag',
        'Monday' => 'Montag',
        'Tuesday' => 'Dienstag',
        'Wednesday' => 'Mittwoch',
        'Thursday' => 'Donnerstag',
        'Friday' => 'Freitag',
        'Saturday' => 'Samstag',
    );
    
    $day = date_format($date, 'l');

    $weekday = $weeksdays[$day];
    
    return $weekday;
}