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Angela Dorothea Merkel
Characteristic.
Growth: 173 centimeters
AT eu: 65 kilograms.
In the family of Polish roots.
Inconspicuous appearance. Slouching.
Has no special marks.
Education: GraduatedTemplin Polytechnic Secondary Schooland Karl Marx University Leipzig With Honours.
Languages: native German, Russian, English. (All three at the highest level).
Specialties and areas of work: bartender, organizer of discos, physicist, chemist - analyst, mathematician, politician.
In the GDR, she was in the analogue of the Komsomol in the propaganda department.
Successful in science, she defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic: "Investigation of the mechanism of decomposition reactions with simple bond breaking and calculation of their rate constants based on quantum chemical and statistical methods."
In big politics since 1989.
Federal Chancellor, head of the conservative party of the CDU/CSU bloc. Elected for 4th term.
Horoscope: Cancer, Horse.
Character: Nordic.
Remarkably modest. Punctual. Pedantic. Scrupulous. Attentive. Sociable. Resentful. Compassionate? Law-abiding.Cunning and resourceful. (Ready to go over heads and corpses.)
Nickname:"Teflon". (For always coming out dry.)
Food preferences:
The drinks: tea with mint. Doesn't like coffee.
Food: loves meat dishes and apple juice.
Clothing: trouser suits, jeans in youth.
Musical preferences: The Beatles group.
Phobias: Bo there are dogs. (In 1995, a neighbor's hunting dog attacked her and bit her on the leg.)
Health: Barren. (For a long time and unsuccessfully treated.Before, I really wanted to have a baby.)
Sexual preferences: Bisexual. Recently prefers women.(Not proven. Presumably her friend is Liz Mon's mistress, director of the largest European concern Bertelsmann).
Close relatives: Markus Kasner brother, physicist, teaches at a higher educational institution in Frankfurt am Main. Lives in Darmstadt.
Irena Kasner is Angela's sister and friend. Psychotherapist.
Family status: For my husband for the second time. Husband, Joachim Sauer, famous chemist, bisexual. (The previous wife divorced after finding him in bed with a man.)
Finance: The total official gross income is 290 thousand euros per year. Like all officials, he does not pay pension insurance and unemployment insurance ...
Assumptions: Possibly a former agent"". It is under the hood of the US intelligence services, which have serious compromising evidence ...
He is a conductor of pro-American policy in Europe.
Notes:
As a teenager, she dreamed of being a teacher.
On the table, at the workplace, he holds a portrait of Catherine II.
He does not part with the phone in silent mode, loves to communicate via SMS.
Lives at: Bundeskanzleramt Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel Willy-Brandt-StraBe 1 10557 Berlin in an apartment building on the fourth floor in a rented apartment opposite the Pergamon Museum. Lives with her husband. There is a private house.
Transport: Service Armored Audi.
Russian version of German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel's Twitter account.
An interesting figure Frau Merkel?
In the memoirs of former Chancellor Kohl, who knew her very well, a lot of interesting things are said about Angela Merkel. For example, it is alleged that she was ill-bred and did not know how to use a knife and fork correctly, striving to grab food from the table with her hands. (According to the specialist on Germany: Kohl thus wants to say that he taught Merkel everything.) But the main thing is a veiled admission that she was involved in cooperation with the American special services...
What is it? Revelations of a politician with one foot in the grave or revenge of the one who betrayed him?
At one time, he doted on Angel - he called "his chicken" and "girl". When journalists heard this, they wrote, "Helmut Kohl's girl", hinting that Merkel is the chancellor's mistress. It is possible, but like many other facts from her biography, it has not been proven. Although during the next scandal with expenses, Kol took the blame for the use of the air park by his girl ...
Let's go back to her birth.
In Hamburg in 1954, namely on July 17, a girl was born in the family of Gerlina and Hoster Kasner, who received the names of Angela Dorothea. Her parents were educated people: her mother was a teacher of English and Latin, and her father, being a Lutheran priest, taught theology at Hamburg and Heidelberg universities. When Angela was only a few weeks old, her parents moved from West Germany to East Germany. In the GDR, Hoster Kasner ministered to the church in Perleberg.
Let me remind you what happened at that time and before. Namely, the confrontation between the USSR (the formation of the Warsaw Pact countries will take place in a year) against the United States, which has already 5 years as a fledgling NATO, is dragging on. The proposal made in 1952 by Stalin on the demilitarization and creation of a united Germany with the withdrawal of all troops of the participating countries caused a sharp refusal from the West.
How so? Give an opportunity to the defeated competitor - Germany, to become independent again??! Never!
Let me remind you that in the United States a proposal was made to further dismember the country and sterilize the Germans. He was stubbornly sought by US Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, according to his calculations, 20 thousand surgeons will be able to quickly process 48 million people. And rid the world of the German menace forever...
But if Stalin did not allow the most radical plans to be made, then everything else that was happening in the territories occupied by the allies was not in his power to change.
At that time, there was a mass migration of residents from the western part of the occupation to the eastern part due to the fact that here the food and living conditions of the Germans were much better.
“From 1945 to mid-1948, we watched the enslavement, humiliation, destruction of an entire nation,” these are the words of a US Navy medical officer. Captain Albert Behnke compared the German and Dutch famines: for many months in some areas of Germany, the ration set by the Allies was 400 calories a day; in most areas it was just below 1,000 calories per day. The governor of the Third Reich in Holland Arthur Seyss-Inquart established ration of 1394 calories per day, which the Dutch always received.(Later he was hanged for this allies).
And Stalin from 1946 to 1948 gave orders for the export of grain abroad in the amount of more than 5 million tons, to save the inhabitants of Eastern Europe and the Germans in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany ...
Since 1948, the Marshall Plan began to work for the enslavement of all of Europe and the fight against the USSR.
The consequences of the Marshall Plan turned out to be global: the United States received a huge market in Western Europe, the foundations for effective transatlantic integration were laid, and the Cold War began.
At the same time, the German Minister of Economics Ludwig Erhard, who went down in history as the father of the economic miracle and the future chancellor, it was in 1948 that he began the economic and monetary reform in Germany.
The United States refused Stalin's proposal for a united Germany and created the FRG.
In 1950, four months after its creation, the country suffered a crisis: production fell, the number of unemployed was 13.5%.
The "efficiency of American aid" fully affected, in addition, the country could not "digest" the gigantic number of refugees (the cost of the device, as well as for war invalids devastated the state budget), as a result of which half of all imports were food, and there was not enough money even for import of raw materials. Two years later, the FRG had to pay 3 billion marks to Israel as compensation for the damage caused during the years of Nazism. Taxes on employees exceeded 30%. Crazy price increases, cessation or reduction of subsidies. And others and others. In general, life was not fun in the FRG, a US colony ...
(Although modern Germany is considered prosperous today, it remains to this day an occupied territory, where there are from 200 to 308American bases! The difference in numbersdepending on what exactly is considered the base.)
But back to Angela's parents.
They were given two cars and a spacious house in the GDR.
The family lived in the new place for three years, and then changed their place of residence, moving to the small provincial town of Templin, where Hoster Kasner was able to lead the seminary. In 1957, on July 7, Angela had a brother, Markus, and later in 1964, a sister, Irena.
The biography of Angela Merkel contains many white spots, for example, little is known about her childhood. And she does not like to share memories of early youth.
Angela once said that when she was little, the Soviet military stole her bicycle several times. Was it really interesting? How could she find out who the culprit was?
In 1961, Angela went to the first grade of the secondary polytechnic school in the city of Templin. And until her graduation she was one of the best students.
They say Angela was an inconspicuous quiet girl, at the same time, after class, she didn’t feel like a black sheep at all, freely communicating with peers and peers, participating in class life and general entertainment.
Her favorite school subjects were mathematics and physics. In 1973, Angela Dorothea graduated from high school with excellent marks in all her exams.
In the same year, she moved to Leipzig, where she continued her studies at the university at the Faculty of Physics and again shone with her knowledge. She became the winner of the national Olympiad in the Russian language, and received a trip to the USSR as a reward.
She easily mastered all disciplines, although she gravitated towards the exact sciences. She was an active participant in the organization of the Free Youth of Germany - she was engaged in propaganda and agitation.
Nudism has always been taken lightly in Germany.
Only the lazy did not write about how she earned pocket money on blueberry speculation, so I will not develop this topic ...
Soon Angela met her future husband, Ulrich Merkel from Vogtland, he was also a student of physics.
In 1977, they got married and lived together for about 5 years, unsuccessfully trying to have a child. In 1981, in connection with this, they officially divorced. But Merkel decided to leave her husband's surname, it sounded very impressive: in German, "Merkel" means "noticeable."
To be continued...
“First a socialist, then an East Berlin spy, then hanging out with skinheads, now the German Chancellor. Here is Ms Merkel's career!” (a photo)
In Germany, compromising pictures of the current Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel were unexpectedly published. In the photo posted by the German branch of the international organization of hackers Anonymous, Frau Merkel is in a society of outright skinheads, writes kp.ru.
The photographs are dated 1993. The scene is the neo-Nazi youth center Elbterrassen in the German city of Magdeburg.
The fact that these images are aimed at compromising Merkel is eloquently stated by the caption that accompanies them: “First an FDJ (socialist?), then an East Berlin spy, then hanging out with skinheads, now the German Chancellor. Here is Ms Merkel's career!”
To make it clearer: FDJ is an analogue of the Soviet Komsomol in the socialist GDR - the Union of Free German Youth. Angela rose to the rank of secretary of the agitation and propaganda department of this organization. The phrase "East Berlin spy" hints that Merkel was suspected of working for the Stasi - East German intelligence - a semblance of the KGB. Angela herself admitted that the German “Chekists” tried to recruit her, but she allegedly laughed it off: “I can’t do it, because I’m a talker by nature.”
And here is a new piece of evidence. Merkel participated in a meeting of neo-Nazis. Moreover, her visit to them was almost immediately after a high-profile crime - skinheads beat anti-fascist Thorsten to death with a baseball bat.
Many immediately remembered how, speaking in the Bundestag, the German Chancellor made a slip, saying that "anti-Semitism is the civic duty of all Germans." After that, in order to settle the situation, Merkel's press secretaries were forced to publish corrections to her speech.
Angela Merkel, nee Kasner, walks in military uniform next to an officer of the GDR army. The photo dates from 1972, when the future chancellor of Germany was 17 years old.
Now, after the appearance of sensitive photos with neo-Nazis, the German government again had to explain. The official justification says that Merkel, on the contrary, "worked in this place to ward off young people from neo-Nazi ideas and involve them in programs to democratize and fight fascism."
In Germany, they put forward 2 main versions of the reasons for the appearance of compromising evidence on the chancellor right now.
Some say that Frau Merkel is thereby warning against further patronage of the Ukrainian authorities, where there are too many outright neo-Nazis.
Others say that the handwriting of compromising material on Merkel is too similar to the scandal with the former head of the IMF and French presidential candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn. As soon as he announced plans to rid the world of the dominance of the dollar system, they set up violence against an African-American maid, who was twice as large as the financier himself. And only when Strauss-Kahn's political career was already over, it turned out that the maid had lied and, in general, she had traded in such blackmail before.
Experts believe that the United States is now also trying to influence Angela Merkel before the meeting with Barack Obama and the publication of the details of the new Franco-German "peace plan" to end the war in Ukraine. So far - just warning Frau Chancellor not to retreat from the hard American line of supporting Kyiv and putting pressure on Moscow. But if Merkel allows herself to contradict Washington, a much more “deadly” compromising evidence may come into play. After all, as it became known thanks to the confessions of Edward Snowden, the American NSA intelligence service tapped Merkel's mobile phone for many years. And probably aware of many of her personal and state secrets.
Angela Dorothea Merkel is now known to many people and a very controversial person when it comes to international politics. Like any public person, Mrs. Merkel has those who admire her, and there are those who cannot stand her.
Be that as it may, the modern "iron lady" is one of the most influential women of international importance. Barely accepting the position of German chancellor, Angela Merkel was able to ensure that the development of the country's policy, both domestic and foreign, finally moved off the ground.
Height, weight, age. How old is Angela Merkel
Watching this world-famous woman, not only Germans, but also people from other countries, are sometimes interested in what her height, weight, and age actually are. How old is Angela Merkel - one of the most popular queries regarding Ms. Merkel.
But first things first. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has a relatively short stature of 165 centimeters, while weighing 65 kilograms. She is 63 years old.
Looking at Angela Merkel's photo in her youth and now, one can understand that she had a rather attractive appearance.
Biography of Angela Merkel
The future "Iron Lady" was born on July 17, 1954. Parents named their daughter after both her grandmothers. His father, Horst Kasner, was a churchman, and his mother, Gerlinda Kasner, was a housewife. Angela has a younger brother and sister, Markus and Irena.
The baby was very inquisitive and restless, showed a technical mindset. At school, she studied with excellence. As a child, by her nature, the future politician was shy and almost did not communicate with her peers, preferring the society of books. The girl showed a special love for mathematics and the Russian language, for which she received the highest score in the final exams.
In Leipzig, Angela Merkel entered the University. Marx, at the Faculty of Physics and Chemistry. It is interesting that she already had her own views on the political situation in the country, did not participate in the opposition and began to think about how to engage in social and political activities. Perhaps, approximately from this period, the biography of Angela Merkel begins, as the future famous politician.
Ms. Merkel also graduated from the university with exceptionally high scores. Soon after that, she found a job at the Central Institute, in the department of chemical theory and analytics. The girl began to take part in social and political activities, became a member of the Union of Free German Youth.
In the 1990s, she managed to earn the position of ministerial adviser in one of the departments of the federal republic of Germany, she was a representative of the Bundestag, the head of the German Christian Democratic Union. And finally, in 2005, she became Chancellor of Germany, replacing Gerhard Schroeder.
Interestingly, Mrs. Merkel is loyal to most states, but does not hesitate to express hostility towards the Russian Federation.
Personal life of Angela Merkel
It is worth noting that Angela Merkel's personal life was rather gray and boring. In her youth, she was not at all ugly, and, as we see, she was also not devoid of intelligence. Most likely, she was not popular with men because of her shyness.
Twice the chancellor was married, but at some point, a couple of years after she took such a high post, curious notes began to appear in the German press. Actually, rumors began to circulate that Merkel had an affair with a certain foreigner. The paparazzi managed to catch the couple several times. Merkel was then married.
Angela Merkel family
Angela Merkel's family are correct and religious people. Although not without "skeletons in the closet."
For example, her father was a mysterious man. It was rumored that he served Hitler during World War II. The man was supposedly a Pole, but shortly before the war he changed his surname to a German one. He was a priest, held an important position in the Lutheran church, was the head of the Sunday school.
Angela's mother was a teacher of English and Latin by profession. After the war, she was not hired and became a housewife, but was able to independently educate her children in the post-war period, when they could not attend kindergarten and school.
Brother Merkel currently lives in Darmstadt and works as a teacher at one of the institutes in Frankfurt.
And Irena, the younger sister, received the profession of a psychotherapist. Angela loves her very much, the sisters have always been best friends.
Children of Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel's children are something that a woman will never have. Even when she first got married, she found out that she would not be able to give birth. Her husband just then began to wish for a child, but when he realized that this would not happen, he left his young wife.
For a long time, Angela was treated in the best hospitals in East Germany, but this did not give any result. Merkel later learned that his ex's new wife was also barren, but they had a baby thanks to a surrogate mother. This angered Angela so much that when she became Chancellor, she banned surrogacy in the country.
Former husband of Angela Merkel - Ulrich Merkel
Angela Merkel's ex-husband, Ulrich Merkel, was a classmate of the future Iron Lady in the past. They met while still studying, and entered into an official marriage after a fairly short time, since then this was considered quite normal.
After graduating from the institute, the young spouses moved to live in Berlin, for the reason that they did not find work in Leipzig. So, Ulrich became an employee of the Central Institute. Their marriage lasted five years and crashed on the inability to give birth to heirs.
Angela Merkel's husband - Joachim Sauer
Remarkably, Angela Merkel's husband, Joachim Sauer, also turned out to be a talented scientist in the field of chemistry. In addition, he is well versed in matters of politics and often gives his wife advice.
They got married in 1998, and there was a lot of gossip about this event in the yellow press. Meanwhile, the spouses live happily, amicably and love each other. As for Joachim, he is not at all public. And so much so that he did not even come to the Angela's inauguration ceremony.
Angela Merkel in her youth on the beach
About four years ago, a photograph began to circulate on the Internet, which depicted Angela Merkel as a young woman on the beach. This photo was taken back in 1972, when the current "iron lady" was 26 years old.
It should be noted that in those years there was a fashion for nudist beaches, and most people were not at all embarrassed to be naked in front of strangers on vacation. Therefore, if you try, it will be quite possible to find a picture showing naked Angela Merkel.
Currently, in more modern pictures on the beaches or near the reservoirs, the Angel appears exclusively in closed swimsuits. Apparently, she began to be ashamed of her own body.
Instagram and Wikipedia Angela Merkel
Instagram and Wikipedia Angela Merkel, without a doubt, exist. For example, in the Internet encyclopedia, you can read a lot of truthful data regarding not only the biography of the chancellor, but also her personal life, and the path to political heights. The information provided there can definitely be trusted.
Merkel created her Instagram profile in the summer of 2015. Almost immediately, the page was attacked by Russian hackers and trolls. They scoffed in every possible way, leaving dislikes and impartial comments. The essence of which Angela, of course, understands, because she knows Russian. The article was found at /alabanza.ru
Angela Dorothea Merkel(German: Angela Dorothea Merkel) German statesman and politician. Federal Chancellor of Germany (since November 22, 2005), leader of the Christian Democratic Union (since April 10, 2000).
Childhood and education of Angela Merkel
Angela Dorothea Merkel (maiden name Kasner) was born on July 17, 1954 in Hamburg. Angela has Polish roots.
Father - Horst Kasner (1926-2011) changed his Polish surname Kazmierczak. He attended Heidelberg and Hamburg Universities, where he studied theology. Angela Merkel's grandfather, Ludwik Kazmierczak, served as a policeman in Poznan, fought in the First World War, participated in the Polish-Ukrainian and Soviet-Polish wars.
Mother - Gerlinda Kasner (nee Ents, born in 1928). She worked as a teacher of Latin and English.
Angela Merkel's grandparents Margareta and Ludwig Kazmirczak (Photo: dw.com)
Angela is the eldest child in the family. Shortly after her birth, her parents moved to the GDR. Horst Kasner began to serve in the Lutheran Church of Berlin-Brandenburg in the city of Perleberg, and in 1957 they moved to the small town of Templin. Angela's father was assigned to run a pastor's college. His wife was a foreign language teacher. In addition to Angela Dorothea, the couple had two more children: Angela's brother Markus (b. 1957) and sister Irena (b. 1964).
Angela as a child (Photo: bundeskanzlerin.de)
The children of the Kasner family did not go to extended day school, but spent time at home after school. Gerlinda was actively involved in the education and upbringing of her children.
Angela Merkel with her parents (Photo: bundeskanzlerin.de)
Angela Kasner entered the secondary polytechnic school in 1961. Angela Dorothea was a quiet, modest girl. But she studied well. She had a talent for languages and the exact sciences.
Like all children in the GDR, Angela was a pioneer and then joined the Union of Free German Youth (SSNM). Angela Dorothea graduated from high school in 1973 with honors and entered the Faculty of Physics at the Karl Marx University of Leipzig.
At school, Angela joined the ranks of the pioneers, which she left a year later of her own free will. In her youth, Angela Merkel was a member of the Union of Free German Youth, served as secretary for agitation and propaganda ... and loved The Beatles (Photo: bundeskanzlerin.de)
Angela Kasner received her bachelor's degree in 1973 from Templin High School. She was especially strong in mathematics and knew Russian well (Photo: bundeskanzlerin.de)
In 1977, Angela Kasner married her classmate Ulrich Merkel. After graduation, the couple moved to East Berlin. Angela Merkel worked as a researcher at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. The couple divorced in 1982 (Photo: bundeskanzlerin.de)
Merkel studied excellently at the university. At the same time, she combined her studies with active work in the SSNM. She was no longer a quiet, inconspicuous girl. While studying in 1974, at one of the youth exchange meetings with physics students from Moscow and Leningrad, she met her first husband, a physics student from Vogtland, Ulrich Merkel. The wedding took place at Templin Church on September 3, 1977.
While still studying at the university, Angela thought about political activities, but in her student years, Merkel was not an oppositionist. Working at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, she held for some time the position of secretary of the committee of the Union of Free German Youth - GDR Komsomol. Was responsible for agitation and propaganda.
Having successfully graduated from the University of Leipzig, Angela Merkel was sent to work at the Central Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. In 1986 she defended her doctoral dissertation.
Political career of Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel started as a politician in the late 80s of the last century. In the whirlwind of public life, the face of Angela Merkel began to flicker more and more often. The Berlin Wall collapsed. This event deeply excited the young scientist-physicist. At this historic moment for the Germans, Angela Dorothea was noticed by the then Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Helmut Kohl. The German leader needed fresh faces, representatives of the new federal lands, who did not have time to annoy the voters. The candidacy of Dr. Merkel corresponded to the implementation of his plans.
Angela Merkel coped well with her new responsibilities. She agitated people, met with fishermen in the Baltic, talking with them right in the pubs. Merkel did not skimp on promises, they believed her, they voted for her. “At least she knew how to listen,” her voters said, not very offended that the promises remained unfulfilled.
In the first all-German elections in December 1990, Angela won the Stralsund-Rügen-Grimmen constituency. On January 18, 1991, Angela Merkel, then 36 years old, was sworn in as Federal Minister for Women and Youth in the cabinet of Chancellor Helmut Kohl (Photo: bundeskanzlerin.de)
Angela Dorothea Merkel joined the Christian Democratic Union party, and after the reunification of Germany she became a member of the Bundestag from the CDU. Helmut Kohl immediately appreciated Angela's high potential. And he gave an order to a young party comrade: “You will lead women!”
Chancellor Kohl invited Angela Merkel to his government and put her in the promising position of Minister for Women and Youth Affairs. She became his favorite, the old politician called her "girl". Soon she took the post of secretary of the CDU. And journalists nicknamed Merkel "Kolya's girl."
In 1994, Angela Merkel was appointed Federal Minister for the Environment. It was during her tenure that the first UN climate conference was held in Berlin in 1995. It was the start of international initiatives to reduce CO2 emissions and the Contained Substances Act. (Photo: bundeskanzlerin.de)
However, in 1998, Kohl lost the election to Gerhard Schroeder. And immediately after leaving, the ex-chancellor began to lose friends and associates. Especially when he was accused that the CDU allegedly accepted money for party needs from the oligarchs. And once “devoted” to Kohl, Dr. Merkel hastened to dissociate herself from her former patron and led the movement to overthrow Helmut Kohl from his party post. In the same year, Angela Merkel was elected general secretary of the party.
Angala Merkel - Woman Chancellor
Merkel with a purely German tenacity went to power. In 2002, she put forward her candidacy for the post of chancellor of Germany, but then abandoned the rivalry in favor of the leader of the Christian Socialist Union (CSU), Edmund Stoiber. However, already in 2005, she was nominated as a candidate for the post of Chancellor of Germany from the opposition.
On September 20 of the same year, at the first meeting of the new CDU / CSU faction, Angela Dorothea Merkel was elected its chairman. And on November 22, 2005, Merkel was preferred by 397 of the 611 votes of the deputies of the Bundestag of the XVI convocation and she became the first female federal chancellor and at the same time the youngest (at the age of 51) federal chancellor in the history of Germany with a natural science education.
After six weeks of negotiations, the CDU, CSU and SPD agreed to form a Grand Coalition led by Angela Merkel. On November 22, 2005, Angela Merkel was elected Federal Chancellor in the Bundestag with 397 out of 614 votes. (Photo: bundeskanzlerin.de)
Angela Merkel is in the supreme position to this day. Over the years, she has shown herself to be a seasoned and skillful leader. Angela Merkel managed to maintain order in the state to a greater extent. Germany is the economic leader in the EU. After the unification, the country began to dominate more and more in the political aspect. Chancellor Merkel increased Germany's authority in Europe with her policies. Her country has repeatedly provided assistance to less developed European states, including financial assistance.
However, for some time now, due to the increase in terrorist acts, Chancellor Merkel began to doubt the correctness of her chosen migration policy. Back in 2010, speaking to young members of the CDU in Potsdam, Angela Merkel openly admitted that the policy of multiculturalism had failed completely in Germany. She believed that not only Europeans, but also immigrants who arrived in Europe "should make more efforts to integrate into German society, in particular, by learning the German language."
Angela Merkel, 2010 (Photo: DPA/TASS)
In turn, the press secretary of the Chancellor, Steffen Seibert, said that Merkel intends to remain in the post of German Chancellor until the end of her term.
Personal life of Angela Merkel
Married life Merkel was unsuccessful. They lived with her husband Ulrich Merkel for 5 years, in 1982 Angela left him. But she kept his last name (Merklich, which means “notable”).
The second husband of Angela Merkel (formalized relationship in 1998) is a chemist Joachim Sauer. Angela Merkel has no children in her first or second marriage.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel with her husband Joachim Sauer. (Photo: Zuma/TASS)
Scandals with Angela Merkel
In 2013, a nude photo of Angela Merkel in her youth appeared on the network. However, it has not yet been officially confirmed that Angela Dorothea Merkel is depicted on them. Although there is nothing surprising in this - there were many young people in the ranks of the nudist movement of the 60s. And these photos even gave some piquancy to the person of Angela Merkel, and her rating as a politician only increased. After all, nudism is very popular in Germany.
Angela Merkel's official account
Angela was a calm but cheerful child. She studied well and was also fond of social activities. In high school, Angela joined the pioneers, but left a year later of her own accord. However, this did not mean the end of the Komsomol activities.
Interesting!
Merkel was excellent at mathematics and Russian. She participated in many school activities, went on hikes. Photos of Merkel in military uniform have been preserved.
Student years
Angela graduated from the secondary polytechnic school with honors in 1973. After that, she entered the University of Leipzig, the Faculty of Physics.
Interesting!
In her youth, Merkel paid much attention to socialist ideas. She was a member of the Union of Free German Youth, even was the secretary for agitation and propaganda.
SSNM is an analogue of the Soviet Komsomol organization. Vigorous activity in the Youth Union did not prevent Angela from excelling in her studies.
Socialist ideas did not prevent Merkel from succumbing to other fashionable trends at the time. In the 60s and 70s, nude beaches gained popularity in Germany. In 1972, a picture was taken supposedly with the future chancellor, who, along with two friends, visits a similar beach. Representatives of the chancellor did not react to this picture, published in 2013, so it is not clear whether the photo is really Merkel, or just a girl who looks like her.
Angela found her first big love through a university event. In 1974, there was a meeting dedicated to the exchange of students between the GDR and the Soviet Union, to be more precise, Moscow and Leningrad. Here she ran into physics student Ulrich Merkel. The couple got married in 1977.