- Angela Merkel is the German chancellor (a chancellor is the same as a taoiseach or prime minister). She was born on the 17 July 1954 in Hamburg Germany. She is now 57.
- She studied physics from 1973 to 1978 in the University of Leipzig
- She worked and studied at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin from 1978 to 1990.
- She wrote a thesis and was awarded a doctorate for it.
- She was also the first woman to be a German chancellor
- She was elected in 2005 and then was re-elected in 2009. Her term will end in 2013.
- Angela Merkel married Ulrich Merkel a physics student in 1977. In 1982 the marriage ended in divorce.
- She married Joachim Sauer on the 30 December 1998.
- She has no children but Sauer has two adult boys.
- Her maiden name is Kasner.
