Changing keyboard layout per user

Hello together,
On my Laptop the default keyboard layout for X is US-INTL. That"s what I am using.
Sometimes my friends are using my Laptop, for them I have a seperate user account.
But they would prefer using the germen (de) keyboard layout.
Can I somehow change the keyboad layout during login (using a command in .xsession for example)?
Thansk!
Nathan

Thanks for your reply!
That would work.
But I want to use XDM for login.
I found xmodmap for changing keyboard layout.
But
xmodmap /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/de
does not work.
I guess xmodmap needs another filetype.

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