The Ajo Derbi rider had a bad start from sixth on the grid and by the end of the first lap was only eighth, but he then started making steady progress.
By lap 14 of the 27-lap race he was up to third, closing in just one lap a 0.6-second gap to second-placed Aprilia's Simone Corsi, who is now 25 points behind the Frenchman on the championship table after finishing today's race in fifth place.
Di Meglio then set off after race leader Bradley Smith, whose Polaris Aprilia was 1.7 seconds up the road. But within three laps that gap was nullified and the Briton was overtaken on lap 18 and eventually classified fourth.
Aprilia's Stefan Bradl ended up best of the rest in his home Grand Prix, however he was over two seconds behind the winner at the flag, with the Aspar Aprilia of Gabor Talmacsi taking the last podium place.
The reigning champion had a good race after a terrible start, when he released the clutch too abruptly from his pole position spot and dropped outside the top ten by the first corner.
Derbi's Joan Olive and Aprilia's Sergio Gadea suffered engine failures mid-way through the race, forcing them to retire from their ninth and eleventh positions respectively.
Raffaele de Rosa crashed his eighth-placed KTM with five laps of the race to go.
The race was deemed dry by the stewards, even though a light drizzle hit the German track during proceedings.
CLASSIFIED: Pos Rider Bike Time 1. Mike Di Meglio Derbi 40:03.710 2. Stefan Bradl Aprilia + 2.010 3. Gabor Talmacsi Aprilia + 2.733 4. Bradley Smith Aprilia + 2.847 5. Simone Corsi Aprilia + 9.117 6. Sandro Cortese Aprilia + 9.249 7. Nicolas Terol Aprilia + 9.257 8. Scott Redding Aprilia + 30.778 9. Esteve Rabat KTM + 32.311 10. Marc Marquez KTM + 33.034 11. D.Agerter Derbi + 33.121 12. Andrea Iannone Aprilia + 33.134 13. Pere Tutusaus Aprilia + 33.171 14. Marcel Schrotter Aprilia + 33.208 15. Pablo Nieto KTM + 33.755 16. Efren Vazquez Aprilia + 34.554 17. Pol Espargaro Derbi + 37.776 18. Steve Bonsey Aprilia + 37.872 19. Takaaki Nakagami Aprilia + 54.240 20. Marvin Fritz Seel + 58.249 21. Alexis Masbou Loncin +1:14.202 22. Louis Rossi Honda +1:15.255 23. Robert Muresan Aprilia +1:16.356 24. Marco Ravaioli Aprilia +1:16.854 25. Tobias Siegert Aprilia + 1 Lap NOT CLASSIFIED/RETIREMENTS: Rider Bike Laps Lorenzo Zanetti KTM 25 Tomoyoshi Koyama KTM 24 Raffaele De Rosa KTM 22 Jules Cluzel Loncin 19 Sergio Gadea Aprilia 15 Robin Lasser Aprilia 15 Joan Olive Derbi 14 S.Kreuziger Honda 14 Michael Ranseder Aprilia 12 Bastien Chesaux Aprilia 9 Daniel Webb Aprilia 5 H.van den Berg Aprilia 4 R.Krummenacher KTM 3 Eric Hubsch Aprilia 2 FASTEST LAP: Di Meglio, 1:27.584 on lap 16
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