Angelina Merkel Biography
Angela Merkel was born on July 17. Having completed his studies, Kasner and his wife and 3-year-old daughter angel Dorothea returned to East Germany and received a Lutheran parish in a small Brandenburg town of Templic. There in the city of Angel graduated from school. In school years, 2 times won the Soviet-Eastern German Olympiads in mathematics, won the republican competitions in the Russian language.
In the city, she met Ulrich Merkel, who allegedly did not immediately be able to go to work because of the unwillingness to cooperate with the Ministry of State Security of the GDR and sympathy for Polish dissidents from the Jolidarity movement. According to other sources, A. Merkel was not seen at that time in any protest moods. At the end of the year, after the fall of the Berlin wall, A.
Merkel became a politician.
A few months later, she became deputy press secretary in the first non-communist government of the GDR, headed by Lotar de Mesier. In gg. Moscow to find out about the attitude of Soviet citizens to political changes in Germany. In August, de Mesier personally introduced A. Kole, who contributed a lot to her rapid climbing the career ladder. The CDU was defeated by the elections, and A.
Merkel lost a ministerial post. From G. Kolya, at the head of the party V. Shoible, involved in the financial scandal around the former chancellor, was forced to resign. Having dissociated from G. Kolya and V. Shoible, A. Merkel achieved the status of an independent politician claiming absolute leadership in the CDS. Her ambitions were a surprise, and she was criticized.
Although G. Merkel voluntarily lost to Edmund Stevber: who, as the Prime Minister of Bavaria, representing the Bavarian Allies of the CDS-the Christian Social Union, became a candidate for the post of chancellor from the Christian parties, after his sensational loser of Social Democrates G. Schreder, she significantly strengthened the candidacy of Merkel in the fall.
It was proposed by Stelaber, and the leadership of both Christian parties accepted this proposal. Merkel at the head of the government. Some observers and many opposition politicians appreciated the victory of the leader of the CDS skeptical: in their opinion, a significant number of votes against that Merkel received during the vote, cast doubt on the legal capacity of the coalition.
With the advent of A. Merkel, the significant changes in the foreign policy of Germany were expected to power in comparison with the times of G. But the new chancellor was much more skeptical about Russia than G. Schroeder - a great friend V. Putin, although she also made statements about the need for partnership with Russia - she spoke about this in May A. Merkel in the list of the highest paid leaders of European countries.
Her annual income - 5 thousand euros - turned out to be slightly lower than that of the British Prime Minister T. about Blara had already forgotten, and A. Merkel and still at the helm. In September, the Forbes magazine was given by A. Merkel 1st place in the ranking of the most influential women in the world; Thus, she squeezed the forgotten US Secretary of State K. Rice, who headed this list over 2 previous years.
Merkel is married, 2 marriage in G with a professor of chemistry at the University of Berlin, Humboldt I. Zower, whom she met while working at the Central Institute of Physical Chemistry. There are no children.