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Merkel was born Angela Dorothea Kasner on 17 July 1954 in Hamburg. The Kasner name is derived from Jan Kaźmierczak, a Pole from Poznań who lived in the 18th century. Merkel's grandfather changed the name to Kasner in 1930. Merkel has been married twice, and kept the name of her first husband, Ulrich Merkel.
In 1977, at the age of 23, Merkel, then Angela Kasner, married physics student Ulrich Merkel (born 1953) [315] and took his surname. The couple divorced in 1982. [316] Her second and current husband is quantum chemist and professor Joachim Sauer, who has largely avoided media attention during and after Merkel's political career.
Due to the fact that Merkel became the first female chancellor of Germany on 22 November 2005, Sauer also assumed a role in diplomatic protocol as third-highest ranking spouse. In German order of precedence , the chancellor is the third-highest ranking office behind the President of Germany and the President of the Bundestag .
On Friday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with President Trump to discuss foreign relationships between Germany and the United States. Another Trump, as it turned out, was also present at the ...
In "Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021" (published by St. Martin's Press), former German Chancellor Angela Merkel writes about two lives: her early years growing up under a Communist-controlled police ...
Read CNN’s Fast Facts about Angela Merkel, Germany’s first female chancellor.
Stones in Exile 2010 (documentary) (co-executive producer: Passion Pictures) Fire in Babylon 2010 (documentary) (co-executive producer) The Lost Thing 2010 (short) (co-director) Project Nim 2011 (documentary) (executive producer) Searching for Sugar Man 2012 (documentary) (executive producer) How I Live Now 2013 (producer) (post-production)
As two of the world's most powerful individuals, it's only natural that the relationship between Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Barack Obama is one of the closest in politics.