Angela Merkel was elected leader of Germany in 2005, and she held that position until she retired in 2021. She was the first ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was seen trembling once again during ... Her absences were only brief on those occasions. Her mother died earlier this year. If she were found unable to fulfil ...

Angela Merkel was born Angela Dorothea Kasner on July 17, 1954, in Hamburg, which was then part of West Germany. Her father, Horst Kasner, was a Lutheran pastor, and her mother was a teacher of ...