Angela Merkel is one of the most popular women in politics. Since 2000, she has been the leader of the German Christian Democratic Union party. And since 2005, Merkel is the Federal Chancellor of Germany. What was a young woman politician like?
Childhood and Youth Angels Merkel
The full name of the recognized leader of Germany is Angel Dorothea Merkel. Born in 1954 in Hamburg. The girl’s family has Polish roots. Grandfather once served as a police officer in Poznan, was a participant in the First World War and the Soviet-Polish War. Angela's father studied theology at the universities of Hamburg and Heidelberg. Mom taught English and Latin.
Some time after the birth of Angela, who became the eldest child in the family, her parents moved to the GDR. Father Horst Kasner found a place in the Lutheran church in Perleberg. In 1957, the family moved to the small town of Templin. Angels have a brother Marcus and a sister Irena. Children did not go to school for an extended day: they spent free time from school at home. Her mother, Gerlinda, herself was engaged in raising children.
Quiet, calm and modest girl, Angela always studied well. Teachers noted her ability to exact sciences and foreign languages. Best of all, the girl was given mathematics and the Russian language. Behind the future leader of Germany is a secondary polytechnic school. Like all children of socialist Germany, Angela was a member of a pioneer organization, but voluntarily left the organization a year after joining. Later she joined the Union of Free German Youth, where she was actively engaged in campaigning and propaganda activities. In 1973, Angela graduated with honors from high school and entered the physics department of the University of Leipzig.
Merkel studied well at the university. At the same time, she was an active participant in political events in the youth union. In photographs of that time, it was already difficult for her to recognize a quiet and inconspicuous girl of earlier years. In her youth, she loved to dance. Already in these years, the girl began to seriously think about a political career, but then she could not be called a member of the opposition.
In 1977, Angela married Ulrich Merkel, her fellow student. After completing their studies, the young couple moved to East Berlin, where a young female physicist worked as a researcher at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Academy of Sciences. But the marriage was short-lived: already in 1982, the young couple broke up.
