BERLIN – Chancellor Angela Merkel's office says the German leader's mother, Herlind Kasner, has died. She was 90. Merkel's office confirmed the death in a short statement Thursday and asked that ...

Angela Merkel on the eve of her election in 2005 with parents. Herlind Kasner, Angela Merkel’s mother, from Hamburg was a Latin and English teacher. Her father, Horst Kasner, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Angela Merkel served as chancellor of Germany for four consecutive four-year terms, ... (“Mother Merkel”), as the country’s first female chancellor came to be known.

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office says the German leader’s mother, Herlind Kasner, has died. She was 90.