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The family of Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of Germany, is of German and Polish descent. 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.
Angela Merkel is a Lutheran member of the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia (German: Evangelische Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg-schlesische Oberlausitz – EKBO), a United Protestant (i.e. both Reformed and Lutheran) church body under the umbrella of the Protestant Church in Germany.
He was the paternal grandfather of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose birth name Kasner had been Germanized from Kaźmierczak by Ludwig Kasner in 1930. In 2013 Ludwig Kasner received media attention in Poland and Germany after a new book shed light on Angela Merkel's family background.
After a childhood behind the Iron Curtain, Angela Merkel served as Chancellor of a united Germany for 16 years, becoming the most powerful woman in the world while dealing with its most powerful men.
Angela Merkel (2005), German Chancellor [51] Wolfgang Schäuble (2016), [16] Minister of Finance; Helmut Schmidt, West German Chancellor [14] Klaus Schwab (2016), [16] Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum; Jens Spahn (2017), [31] Parliamentary State Secretary and Federal Ministry of Finance; Peer Steinbrück (2011), German Chancellor ...
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 ...
On 30 December 1998, he married Angela Merkel (herself a doctor of physics who had once worked in quantum chemistry research), who later became the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union. 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 ...
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former U.S. President Barack Obama, close political allies when they were both in office, reunited in Washington on Monday for an event to launch her ...