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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. [20][page needed][21] Merkel is of German and Polish descent.
Merkel was the oldest of three children, and grew up on the outskirts of Templin, a small town near the Brandenburg forest. She had an early interest in politics—at fourteen, she secretly...
It was the early 1960s, and Angela Kasner, later known as Angela Merkel, was within the confines of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), a communist state established post World War II. A young Angela Merkel plays with a doll and a pram at a young age at home in Templin. (Angela-Merkel.de)
As was the case for most children growing up in the German Democratic Republic, Merkel participated in the state’s youth organizations. She was a member of the Young Pioneers (from 1962) and the Free German Youth (from 1968).
As she stares straight into the camera for her first portraits with Herlinde Koelbl in 1991, Angela Merkel looks more like an unassuming woman in her thirties than a future country leader.
Angela Merkel, then-Federal Minister for Women and Youth on an airplane, in Germany in 1991. Erwin Falk—Ullstein Bild/Getty Images.
Merkel became a student at the University of Leipzig, where she studied physics. She married a fellow student, Ulrich Merkel. They soon grew apart and separated four years later. She earned a...
Ms. Merkel, then 36, was sworn in as the minister for women and youth in 1991. Martin Gerten/Picture-Alliance, via Associated Press. Ms. Merkel with students at an International Youth Festival...
Bollmann's theory is that Merkel learned to keep her own counsel as a young girl, growing up in former East Germany as the daughter of a Lutheran minister.
Among the scientists in attendance that day, says Schindhelm, were 11 old men and one young woman — 29-year-old Angela Merkel, a quantum chemist.