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This is a review of the life of Angela Merkel, Germany's first female chancellor, who this Tuesday lives her last day in the position she held for 16 years.
Angela Merkel's personal data
Date of birth
: July 17, 1954.
Place of birth
: Hamburg, Germany.
Birth name
: Angela Dorothea Kasner.
Father
: Horst Kasner, Lutheran minister.
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Mother
: Herlind Kasner, English teacher.
Marriages
: Joachim Sauer (since 1998);
Ulrich Merkel (1977-1982, divorced).
Education
: University of Leipzig, BA, 1978;
German Academy of Sciences, PhD, 1986.
Religion
: Lutheran.
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Chronology
1978-1990
- Associate researcher at the Zentralinstitut für Physikalische Chemie in Berlin.
1990
- She becomes a press officer for Demokratischer Aufbruch (DA or Democratic Awakening).
December 1990
- She is elected deputy to the German Federal Parliament.
1991
- She is appointed Minister of Women and Youth by Chancellor Helmut Kohl and becomes Vice President of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
1994
- Minister of the Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety.
1998
- General Secretary of the CDU.
April 10, 2000
- She becomes the first woman president of the CDU.
October 10, 2005
- Reaches an agreement with Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats, which will make her the first female chancellor of Germany.
November 22, 2005
- Sworn in as Germany's first female Chancellor.
January 13-16, 2006
- Meets with the President of the United States, George W. Bush, in the White House, and with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, in the Kremlin.
April 30, 2008
- Receives the Charlemagne Prize, the "Citizens' Prize for Services to European Unity".
June 26, 2009
- Makes his first visit to the United States under the administration of President Barack Obama.
September 27, 2009
- She is re-elected Chancellor of Germany.
February 15, 2011
- Receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Obama.
June 17, 2011
- Meets with French President Nicolas Sarkozy to discuss a possible rescue plan for Greece.
December 5, 2011
- Meets with Sarkozy to announce his proposed plan to impose fiscal discipline on members of the European Union.
September 22, 2013
- She is re-elected Chancellor of Germany.
October 25, 2013
- Following reports that the US National Security Agency (NSA) spied on her mobile phone, an angry Merkel says "real change is needed" and that "spying among friends it's never acceptable. "
December 17, 2013
- Sworn in for a third term as Chancellor of Germany.
June 12, 2015
- Germany's Federal Prosecutor's Office says it has dropped an investigation into allegations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that the National Security Agency had tapped his phone.
The office claims that there was insufficient evidence to initiate a successful prosecution.
December 9, 2015
- Named Person of the Year by Time magazine.
March 17, 2017
- Makes the first visit to the United States under the administration of President Donald Trump.
September 24, 2017
- Merkel wins a fourth term as German Chancellor, but her party's lead in Parliament drops to 33.5%, and the country faces increased support for the far right.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) becomes the third largest group in the national parliament.
March 4, 2018
- The Social Democratic Party votes to renew a governing coalition with Merkel's Christian Democrats, paving the way for her fourth term as chancellor and ending nearly half a year of political lockdown and painful negotiations.
April 27, 2018
- Makes his second state visit to the United States since Trump is in power.
October 29, 2018
- Announces that he will not stand for re-election when his term expires in 2021. This comes after both his party and the Social Democrats suffered heavy losses in the Hessian state elections the day before, and after the Christian Social Union, or CSU - the CDU's Bavarian sister party - lost its majority in the Bavarian state parliament on October 14.
June-July 2019
- Merkel is seen shaking in public three times in less than a month.
"I'm working on some things ... that don't seem to be finished yet, but there is progress and I have to live with it for a while," reveals Merkel, adding: "But I'm fine and you don't have to worry."
March 18, 2020
- In an unusual televised message, Merkel tells the German people that the coronavirus pandemic is the country's most serious crisis since World War II.
December 7, 2021
- It is Angela Merkel's last day as Chancellor of Germany, after 16 years in office.
As of Wednesday, December 8, the country's chancellor is the leftist Olaf Scholz.
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