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Angela Dorothea Merkel (German: [aŋˈɡɪːla doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛʁkl̩] ⓘ; née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 and was the first woman to hold that office.
2 days ago · 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.
Apr 2, 2014 · Angela Merkel is a German politician best known as the first female chancellor of Germany and one of the architects of the European Union. Updated: Mar 23, 2020 (1954-)
May 28, 2019 · Now, as national-populist forces again threaten to overtake much of Europe and undermine relations between the U.S. and the continent, Harvard again welcomes a pivotal democratic figure, a woman widely regarded as the most respected leader in the world, German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Dec 2, 2021 · With a parade of torch-bearing soldiers and a 1970s hit from the Communist East, Germany’s Angela Merkel bid farewell as chancellor. She leaves office next week.
Dec 8, 2021 · Olaf Scholz officially took over the German chancellorship from Angela Merkel on Wednesday, but onlookers were not presented with a U.S.-style inauguration. Rather than pomp and circumstance,...
Sep 18, 2021 · German elections: How Angela Merkel changed her country. As one of the world's most influential leaders, Angela Merkel has helped to determine the course of European and global politics....
Angela Merkel was sworn in as Chancellor on November 22, 2005. She is the first woman and the first East German to hold this office. Her CV traces the most important milestones on her way to taking this office. Angela Merkel was born in Hamburg on 17 July 1954.
Sep 23, 2021 · Angela Merkel is standing down after 16 years in office Germans vote on Sunday in elections that will ultimately bring down the curtain on Angela Merkel's final term as chancellor of...
Sep 12, 2021 · When in late summer 2015 Angela Merkel opened Germany's borders to more than a million refugees and asylum seekers, she made front pages the world over - lauded by some, derided by others.
