Angela Merkel (Politician) Age, Husband, Family, Biography & More StarsUnfolded
Publish date: 2024-05-05
Some Lesser Known Facts About Angela Merkel
- Does Angela Merkel smoke?: No
- Does Angela Merkel drink Alcohol?: Yes
- Merkel has a polish ancestry from her paternal Grandfather, Ludwig Kasner, a German national of Polish origin from Posen (now Poznań). The family’s original Polish name Kaźmierczak migrated to Kasner, Germany in 1930.
- Religion has played a crucial role in Merkel’s life. Her father was born Catholic but her family eventually converted to Lutheranism and she studied Lutheran theology in Heidelberg and afterwards in Hamburg.
- At her school days, she learned to speak Russian fluently and got many prizes for her proficiency in Russian and Mathematics.
- In 1989, she came into Politics. Merkel got involved in the growing democracy movement after the fall of the Berlin Wall, joining the new party Democratic Awakening.
- In 1990, she joined CDU (Christian Democratic Union), she stood for election at the federal election, the first since reunification, and was elected to the Bundestag for the constituency of Stralsund – Nordvorpommern – Rügen.
- She became the Minister of Environment in 1994 and in 2000; she became the head of CDU.
- She divorced her first Husband Ulrich Merkel in 1982 but kept her first husband surname.
- Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl was caught in Slush Fund scandal; she was the first former Kohl ally to publicly break with the man who brought her into the cabinet.
- In November 2015, Forbes magazine ranked Mrs. Merkel the second most powerful person in the world – the highest ranking ever achieved by a woman – and later that year she was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year”, citing her role in Europe’s crises over migration and Greek debt.
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