Angela Merkel poses for a selfie with Anas Modamani, a refugee from Syria on September 10, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Germany eventually welcomed an estimated 1.2 million ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel stands in front of her election-campaign tour bus before a meeting in Berlin on September 16, 2013. ... Merkel's childhood was shaped by the Stasi, or secret police.

Excerpts from Angela Merkel's soon-to-be-published autobiography cover everything from growing up in a dictatorship to the conflict in Ukraine. A look at the key quotes.

After a childhood behind the Iron Curtain, Angela Merkel served as Chancellor of a united Germany for 16 years, becoming the most powerful woman in the world while dealing with its most powerful men.

Much of her steely tenacity and reserve can be ascribed to her unusual childhood. Merkel, who was born Angela Kasner on July 17, 1954, in Hamburg, traveled a few months later with her mother ...

The new film “Merkel” valiantly attempts to paint a portrait of Angela Merkel, from her childhood in the former DDR (East Germany) to the most momentous days of her political career.

Ms Merkel's memoir follows her climb from childhood in the German Democratic Republic and memories of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to becoming Chancellor in 2005.

Angela Merkel Biography. Angela Dorothea Merkel (née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German former politician and scientist who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021.

When Angela Merkel met Donald Trump in 2017, ... The story of her childhood, growing up as a Protestant pastor’s daughter in communist East Germany, is told with verve and poignancy.

11/21/2024 November 21, 2024. Excerpts from former German Chancellor Angela Merkel's soon-to-be-published autobiography cover everything from growing up in a dictatorship to the conflict in Ukraine.