Angela Merkel Siblings: All About Marcus and Irene Kasner
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Angela Merkel, born Angela Dorothea Kasner on 17 July 1954 in Hamburg, West Germany, is a German stateswoman and retired politician best known for serving as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021.
She was the first woman and the first person from the former East Germany to hold the office, and she ranks as the second longest-serving chancellor in German history after Helmut Kohl.
The daughter of Lutheran pastor Horst Kasner and teacher Herlind Kasner, she moved with her family to East Germany shortly after her birth when her father took a pastoral post.