Angela Merkel

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Born: 1954-07-17
From: Hamburg, Germany
Gender: Female
Height: 1.67 m
Popularity: 0.5

Also Known As

앙겔라 메르켈Angela Dorothea Merkel 安格拉·默克尔

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. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), she previously served as Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union from 2000 to 2018. Merkel was the first female chancellor of Germany. During her tenure as Chancellor, Merkel was frequently referred to as the de facto leader of the European Union (EU), the most powerful woman in the world, and since 2016 the leader of the free world. Merkel was born in Hamburg in then-West Germany, moving to East Germany as an infant when her father, a Lutheran clergyman, received a pastorate in Perleberg. She obtained a doctorate in quantum chemistry in 1986 and worked as a research scientist until 1989. Merkel entered politics in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989, briefly serving as deputy spokeswoman for the first democratically elected Government of East Germany led by Lothar de Maizière. Following German reunification in 1990, Merkel was elected to the Bundestag for the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. As the protégée of Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Merkel was appointed as Minister for Women and Youth in 1991, later becoming Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in 1994. After the CDU lost the 1998 federal election, Merkel was elected CDU General Secretary, before becoming the party's first female leader and the first female Leader of the Opposition two years later, in the aftermath of a donations scandal that toppled Wolfgang Schäuble. Following the 2005 federal election, Merkel was appointed to succeed Gerhard Schröder as Chancellor of Germany, leading a grand coalition consisting of the CDU, its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Merkel was the first woman to be elected as Chancellor, and the first Chancellor since reunification to have been raised in the former East Germany. At the 2009 federal election, the CDU obtained the largest share of the vote, and Merkel was able to form a coalition government with the Free Democratic Party (FDP). At the 2013 federal election, Merkel's CDU won a landslide victory with 41.5% of the vote and formed a second grand coalition with the SPD, after the FDP lost all of its representation in the Bundestag. At the 2017 federal election, Merkel led the CDU to become the largest party for the fourth time; Merkel formed a third grand coalition with the SPD and was sworn in for a joint-record fourth term as Chancellor on 14 March 2018. ...

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Distinguished Member of the European Order of Merit

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honorary doctorate of the Weizmann Institute of Science

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honorary doctorate of the Weizmann Institute of Science

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honorary doctorate from Sciences Po

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Bavarian Order of Merit

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Grand Cross special issue of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, special issue

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State Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia

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honorary doctorate from Sciences Po

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Bavarian Order of Merit

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Grand Cross special issue of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, special issue

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State Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia

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Nansen Refugee Award

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Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize

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Nansen Refugee Award

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Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize

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Order of Liberty

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Decoration for Exceptional Merits

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Grand Collar of the Order of Prince Henry

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European Civil Rights Prize of the Sinti and Roma

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Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour

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Supreme Order of the Renaissance

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Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class

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honorary doctor of Johns Hopkins University

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Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold

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Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Netherlands Lion

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Order of Liberty

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Decoration for Exceptional Merits

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Grand Collar of the Order of Prince Henry

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European Civil Rights Prize of the Sinti and Roma

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Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour

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Supreme Order of the Renaissance

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Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 1st Class

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honorary doctor of Johns Hopkins University

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Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold

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Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Netherlands Lion

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Henry A. Kissinger Prize

2020
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Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal

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Henry A. Kissinger Prize

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Buber-Rosenzweig-Medal

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Order of the Three Stars

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honorary doctor of Harvard University

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honorary citizen of Templin

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Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross

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Order of the Three Stars

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honorary doctor of Harvard University

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honorary citizen of Templin

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Grand Cross of the Order of the White Double Cross

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Order of Vytautas the Great

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Eugen Bolz Prize

2017
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honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

2017
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Order of Vytautas the Great

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Eugen Bolz Prize

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honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

2017
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Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal

2016
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Honorary doctor at the Nanjing University

2016

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