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.

Angela Merkel’s tenure as chancellor has come in for criticism, ... 1954, in Hamburg, traveled a few months later with her mother, Herlind, to Soviet-occupied East Germany.