Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German politician and former research scientist, who has been the chancellor of Germany since 2005 and the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 2000. She is the first woman to hold either office. Angela Merkel was born Angela Dorothea Kasner in Hamburg, West Germany, on 17 July 1954. She is the daughter of Horst Kasner (1926 - 2011), a native of Berlin, and his wife Herlind, born in 1928 in Danzig as Herlind Jentzsch, a teacher of English and Latin. Her mother was once a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
Angel Merkel has some Polish ancestry as her paternal grandfather, Ludwig Kazmierczak, was a German, of Polish origin. In 1977, Angela Kasner married physics student Ulrich Merkel and took his surname. The marriage ended in divorce in 1982. Her second and current husband is quantum chemist and professor Joachim Sauer, who has largely remained out of the media spotlight. Angel Merkel and professor Joachim Sauer married privately on 30 December 1998. She has no children but Professor Joachim Sauer has two adult sons from a previous marriage.
Chancellor Angela Merkel
Chancellor Angela Merkel
Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband, Professor Joachim Sauer
Chancellor Angela Merkel with her mother, Herlind Kasner
Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband, Professor Joachim Sauer (right) with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (second left) and his wife Samantha (left)
Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of France Francois Hollande
Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband, Professor Joachim Sauer (right) with President of USA Barack Obama (second left) and his wife Michelle Obama (left)
Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband, Professor Joachim Sauer (right) with President of USA Barack Obama (second left) and his wife Michelle Obama (left)
Chancellor Angela Merkel with the families of German soldiers and police officers serving abroad
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