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Angela Merkel
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Person

Angela Merkel

b. 1954

Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021 (born 1954)

Born
17 Jul 1954 · Elim hospital
Part ofGermany1,250 BCE – todayGermans1471 – todayLutheranism1471 – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 83 years
  1. 17 Jul 1954BornBorn in Elim hospital
  2. 1990 – 1994RoleMember of the German Bundestag
  3. 1991 – 1994RoleFederal Minister for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
  4. 1993 – 2000RoleParty Chairman of the CDU Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  5. 1994 – 1998RoleMember of the German Bundestag
  6. 1994 – 1998RoleFederal Minister for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
  7. 1996AwardCommander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  8. 1998 – 2002RoleMember of the German Bundestag
  9. 1998 – 2000RoleSecretary General of the CDU
  10. 2000 – 2018RoleLeader of the Christian Democratic Union
  11. 2002 – 2005RoleChairman of the CDU/CSU Bundestag fraction
  12. 2002 – 2005RoleMember of the German Bundestag
  13. 2005 – 2009RoleMember of the German Bundestag
  14. 2005 – 2021RoleFederal Chancellor of Germany
  15. 2006AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  16. 2007RolePresident-in-Office of the European Council
  17. 2007AwardGrand Cross of Royal Norwegian Order of Merit
  18. 2007AwardGerman Leo Baeck Award
  19. 2007AwardHonorary doctor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  20. 2007AwardRobert Schuman Medal
  21. 2008AwardCharlemagne Prize
  22. 2008AwardGrand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru‎
  23. 2008AwardHonorary doctor of the Leipzig University
  24. 2008AwardHonorary doctor of Wrocław University of Science and Technology
  25. 2008AwardGrand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  26. 2009AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry
  27. 2009 – 2013RoleMember of the German Bundestag
  28. 2013 – 2017RoleMember of the German Bundestag
  29. 2017 – 2021RoleMember of the German Bundestag

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1954 – today).

  1. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  2. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  3. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  4. 1956Suez Crisis
  5. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  7. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  9. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  10. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  11. 1968Prague Spring
  12. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  13. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  14. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  15. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  16. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  17. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  18. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  19. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  20. 1985Schengen Agreement
  21. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  22. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  23. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  25. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  27. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  28. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  29. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  30. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  31. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  32. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  33. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  34. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  35. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  36. 20112011 Norway attacks
  37. 2011Libyan civil war
  38. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  39. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  40. 20142014 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Angela Dorothea Merkel (née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German stateswoman and retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office and the only former East German. She was Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2000 to 2018.

Merkel was born in Hamburg in West Germany. Her family moved to East Germany when she was an infant. A member of the communist East German Free German Youth (FDJ), Merkel obtained a doctorate in quantum chemistry in 1986 and worked as a research scientist until 1989. She then 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 general secretary of the party. She then became the party's first female leader, and the first female leader of the Opposition, two years later.

Following the 2005 federal election, Merkel was elected chancellor, leading a grand coalition consisting of the CDU, the Christian Social Union (CSU), and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She was the first woman to be elected chancellor, and the first chancellor of the reunified Germany to have been raised in the former East Germany. In the 2009 federal election, the CDU obtained the largest share of the vote, and Merkel subsequently formed a coalition government with the Free Democratic Party (FDP), an alliance more favourable to the CDU than the grand coalition. In the 2013 federal election, the CDU won a landslide victory and formed a second grand coalition with the SPD, after the FDP lost all of its representation in the Bundestag. In the 2017 federal election, Merkel led the CDU to become the largest party for the fourth time, resulting in the formation of a third grand coalition with the SPD.

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