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Ulrich Merkel (born in 1953) was the first husband of Angela Merkel. He met Angela Kasner in 1974 when they were both physics students, and they married in 1977. The marriage ended in divorce in 1982.
Angela Dorothea Merkel (German: [aŋˈɡeːla doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛʁkl̩] ⓘ; [a] née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a retired German politician who served as the chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 and was the first woman to hold that office.
Ulrich Merkel (born in 1953) was the first husband of Angela Merkel. He met Angela Kasner in 1974 when they were both physics students, and they married in 1977. The marriage ended in divorce in 1982.
Angela Merkel (born July 17, 1954, Hamburg, West Germany) is a German politician who served as chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She was the first woman to hold that office and the second longest-serving chancellor in German history.
She was 27, a graduate physics student. He was 32, teaching at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Both were married. Merkel's marriage to Ulrich Merkel, also a physicist, ended in divorce in 1985.
Anyone looking for salacious revelations about her personal life will be disappointed. She deals with the breakdown of her first marriage (to Ulrich Merkel) in barely a paragraph: “One morning in the spring of 1981, I left the apartment we shared in Marienstrasse, a suitcase in my hand… Ulrich Merkel and I divorced in 1982; I kept his name.”
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.