Quick Facts
- NAME: Angela Merkel
- OCCUPATION: Political Leader
- BIRTH DATE: July 17, 1954 (Age: 57)
- EDUCATION: University of Leipzig
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Hamburg, Germany
- Originally: Angela Dorothea Kasner
- ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer
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Angela Merkel is the current Chancellor of Germany. She assumed office in 2005.
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Synopsis
Angela Merkel is the current Chancellor of Germany. The daughter of a pastor and teacher, she grew up in a rural area north of Berlin. In 1990 she joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) political party and soon after was appointed to Helmut Kohl's cabinet as minister for women and youth. In the 2005 election she narrowly defeated Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, winning by just three seats.
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German stateswoman and chancellor (2005– ). Born July 17, 1954 in Hamburg, Germany. The daughter of a Lutheran pastor and teacher, Merkel grew up in a rural area north of Berlin in the then German Democratic Republic. She studied physics at the University of Leipzig, earning a doctorate in 1978, and later worked as a chemist at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences (1978–1990).
In 1990 she joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) political party and soon after was appointed to Helmut Kohl's cabinet as minister for women and youth. Following his defeat in the 1998 general election, she was named Secretary-General of the CDU. She was chosen party leader in 2000 and ran unsuccessfully for chancellor in 2002. In the 2005 election she narrowly defeated Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, winning by just three seats, and after the CDU agreed a coalition deal with the Social Democrats (SPD), she was declared Germany's first female chancellor. Merkel is also the first former citizen of the German Democratic Republic to lead the reunited Germany and the first woman to lead Germany since it became a modern nation-state in 1871.
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