Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel
Née:
Angela Dorothea Kasner
Born:
July 17, 1954, Hamburg, West Germany (age 69)
Title / Office:
chancellor (2005-2021), Germany
Political Affiliation:
Christian Democratic Union
Awards And Honors:
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2011)
Role In:
euro-zone debt crisis

Recent News

Mar. 23, 2024, 6:09 AM ET (Reuters)
Merkel says treaty changes key to solving debt crisis
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Angela Merkel (born July 17, 1954, Hamburg, West Germany) German politician who served as chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She was the first woman to hold that office and the second longest-serving chancellor in German history. Merkel’s parents, Horst and Herlind Kasner, met in Hamburg, where her father was a theology student and her mother was a teacher of Latin and English. After completing his education, her father accepted a pastorate in Quitzow, Brandenburg, and the family relocated to East Germany (German Democratic Republic) just weeks after Merkel’s birth. In 1957 they moved again to Templin, where Merkel ...(100 of 2303 words)