Despite being one of the most powerful women in global politics, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s feminism has ...

Angela Merkel was elected leader of Germany in 2005 ... Like most young people in East Germany at that time, Merkel joined the Free German Youth, the official communist youth movement sponsored ...

Merkel, who was born Angela Kasner on July 17 ... she was appointed minister for women and youth in 1991. She went on to win election as party general secretary in 1998, the first female leader ...