Here’s a look at the life of Angela Merkel, former chancellor of Germany. Personal Birth date: July 17, 1954 Birth place: Hamburg, Germany Birth name: Angela Dorothea Kasner Father: Horst Kasner, a ...

Three weeks after Merkel's birth, her father accepted a post in Quitzow, a town in then-communist East Germany, and the family moved there.When Merkel was three years old, her family moved again ...

Angela Merkel (born Angela Dorothea Kasner on July 17, 1954) was chancellor of Germany from 2005 until 2021. She was the second-longest-serving chancellor in German history, and was the first ...

Despite being one of the most powerful women in global politics, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s feminism has remained ambiguous. Her memoir describes her evolving embrace of more ...

It was Ms. Merkel who agreed to shut down the country’s nuclear power plants and increase Germany’s reliance on imported natural gas from Russia, helping to create an electricity price spike ...

“Never explain, never complain,” is a maxim supposedly espoused by the British royal family. As Angela Merkel writes in her exhaustive yet surprisingly fast-paced autobiography, “Freedom ...