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Full Name	Angela Merkel
Occupation	World Leader
Date Of Birth	Jul 17, 1954(1954-07-17)
Age	70
Birthplace	Hamburg
Country	Germany
Horoscope	Cancer

Angela Merkel Biography

Angela Merkel is one of the most popular and richest World Leader who was born on July 17, 1954 in Hamburg, Germany. German politician , and former researcher who was the very first woman to be the Chancellor of Germany in 2005. She is considered to be one of the most influential women of the 21st century.

She was presented with her the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama..

Religion played a key role in the Kasner family’s migration from West Germany to East Germany. Merkel’s paternal grandfather was originally Catholic but the entire family converted to Lutheranism during the childhood of her father, who later studied Lutheran theology in Heidelberg and Hamburg. In 1954, when Angela was just three months old, her father received a pastorate at the church in Quitzow (a quarter of Perleberg in Brandenburg), which was then in East Germany. The family moved to Templin and Merkel grew up in the countryside 90 km (56 mi) north of East Berlin.

Merkel was born Angela Dorothea Kasner in 1954, in Hamburg, West Germany, the daughter of Horst Kasner (1926–2011; né Kaźmierczak), a Lutheran pastor and a native of Berlin, and his wife Herlind (1928–2019; née Jentzsch), born in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), a teacher of English and Latin. She has two younger siblings, Marcus Kasner, a physicist, and Irene Kasner, an occupational therapist. In her childhood and youth, Merkel was known among her peers by the nickname “Kasi”, derived from her last name Kasner.

Born to West Germany, and raised there with her siblings and brother. She was married to Joachim Sauer in 1998 after earlier being engaged with Ulrich Merkel from 1977 to 1982.

Angela Merkel Net Worth

Angela Merkel is one of the richest World Leader from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Angela Merkel 's net worth $11.5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The actress joined her party Christian Democratic Union party in 1990 and was then named by the prime minister She joined the Christian Democratic Union party in 1990, and was appointed by Prime Minister Helmut Kohl as minister for women and children. as minister of women and children.

With her strong fiscal position to illustrate her point, she argued for the insolvent EU nations to reduce on their government expenditures – and take “austerity” measures.

Merkel is of German and Polish descent. Her paternal grandfather, Ludwik Kasner, was a German policeman of Polish ethnicity, who had taken part in Poland’s struggle for independence in the early 20th century. He married Merkel’s grandmother Margarethe, a German from Berlin, and relocated to her hometown where he worked in the police. In 1930, they Germanized the Polish name Kaźmierczak to Kasner. Merkel’s maternal grandparents were the Danzig politician Willi Jentzsch, and Gertrud Alma née Drange, a daughter of the city clerk of Elbing (now Elbląg, Poland) Emil Drange. Since the mid 1990s, Merkel has publicly mentioned her Polish heritage on several occasions and described herself as a quarter Polish, but her Polish roots became better known as a result of a 2013 biography.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Angela Merkel height 5 ft 8 in Angela weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Angela Merkel Dating?

According to our records, Angela Merkel married to Joachim Sauer , Ulrich Merkel. As of December 1, 2023, Angela Merkel’s is not dating anyone.

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Merkel worked and studied at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin-Adlershof from 1978 to 1990. At first she and her husband squatted in Mitte. At the Academy of Sciences, she became a member of its FDJ secretariat. According to her former colleagues, she openly propagated Marxism as the secretary for “Agitation and Propaganda”. However, Merkel has denied this claim and stated that she was secretary for culture, which involved activities like obtaining theatre tickets and organising talks by visiting Soviet authors. She stated: “I can only rely on my memory, if something turns out to be different, I can live with that.”

Facts & Trivia

Angela Ranked on the list of most popular World Leader. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Angela Merkel celebrates birthday on July 17 of every year.

Merkel was born in Hamburg in then-West Germany, moving to East Germany as an infant when her father, a Lutheran clergyman, received a pastorate in Perleberg. She obtained a doctorate in quantum chemistry in 1986 and worked as a research scientist until 1989. Merkel entered politics in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989, briefly serving as deputy spokesperson for the first democratically elected East German Government led by Lothar de Maizière. Following German reunification in 1990, Merkel was elected to the Bundestag for the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. As the protégée of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Merkel was appointed as Minister for Women and Youth in 1991, later becoming Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in 1994. After the CDU lost the 1998 federal election, Merkel was elected CDU General Secretary, before becoming the party’s first female leader two years later in the aftermath of a donations scandal that toppled Wolfgang Schäuble.

What made Angela Merkel famous?

Merkel was the first woman to be elected as Chancellor, and the first Chancellor since reunification to have been raised in the former East Germany. At the 2009 federal election, the CDU obtained the largest share of the vote, and Merkel was able to form a coalition government with the Free Democratic Party (FDP).

How long can you be chancellor in Germany?

Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
Term length| 4 years, renewable
Constituting instrument| German Basic Law (German Constitution)
Inaugural holder| Konrad Adenauer
Formation| 24 May 1949

What religion is Merkel?

NameReligious affiliation
6| Helmut Kohl| Roman Catholic
7| Gerhard Schröder| Protestant
8| Angela Merkel
9| Olaf Scholz| Irreligious (raised Protestant)

How long Angela Merkel been in power?

in officeChancellorTime in office

34| Angela Merkel| 16 years, 16 days
27| Konrad Adenauer| 14 years, 31 days
24| Adolf Hitler| 12 years, 90 days
4| Bernhard von Bülow| 8 years, 270 days

Who is more powerful German president or chancellor?

The president enjoys a higher ranking at official functions than the chancellor. The president’s role is integrative and includes the control function of upholding the law and the constitution.