Ronny Hartmann / Getty Images Angela Merkel (born Angela Dorothea Kasner on July 17, 1954) was chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She was the first woman to hold the office and the second ...

Angela Merkel ... first 35 years of her life, in East Germany. A pastor’s daughter whose family was critical of the German Democratic Republic, Merkel learned early on “to be careful ...

It was a defining image of the Merkel years: the German chancellor leaning across a table at the G7 summit in 2018, looming ...

The early section of Freedom, about the first half of Merkel’s life in the GDR ... Newly appointed German chancellor Angela Merkel takes the oath of office in Berlin on Nov. 22, 2005.

Angela Merkel’s black limousine cruised to a stop here outside the Hotel Adlon, a storied building near the path of the wall that kept her locked in the East for the first 35 years of her life.

Angela Merkel hired no fewer ... and social crisis. The early section of Freedom, about the first half of Merkel’s life in the GDR, offers a few clues as to her nascent political orientation.

Angela Merkel’s black limousine cruised to a stop here outside the Hotel Adlon, a storied building near the path of the wall that kept her locked in the East for the first 35 years of her life.