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Angela Merkel

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Angela Dorothea Merkel (German pronunciation: [aŋˈɡeːla doʁoˈteːa ˈmɛʁkl̩] ; née Kasner; born 17 July 1954) is a German retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office, as well as the only former East German, and the first born after World War II. She was Leader of the Opposition from 2002 to 2005 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2000 to 2018. Merkel was born in Hamburg in West Germany. Her family moved to East Germany when she was an infant. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Angela Merkel is the 118th most popular politician (down from 107th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Germany (up from 36th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Politician.

Angela Merkel is most famous for being the Chancellor of Germany. She is the first woman to hold this position and has been in office since 2005.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Angela Merkel ranks 118 out of 19,576. Before her are Trajan, Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, Selim II, Frederick the Great, Francisco Franco, and Justinian I. After her are Nikita Khrushchev, Muammar Gaddafi, Harald V of Norway, Leonid Brezhnev, Nebuchadnezzar II, and Basil II.

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Among people born in 1954, Angela Merkel ranks 1. After her are Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Jackie Chan, François Hollande, Alexander Lukashenko, Shinzō Abe, Denzel Washington, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Hugo Chávez, Viktor Yushchenko, and John Travolta.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Angela Merkel ranks 30 out of 7,253. Before her are Henry Kissinger (1923), Max Weber (1864), Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), Frederick the Great (1712), Johannes Brahms (1833), and Friedrich Engels (1820). After her are Max Planck (1858), Bernhard Riemann (1826), Anne Frank (1929), Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368), Hermann Hesse (1877), and Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912).

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Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Angela Merkel ranks 7. Before her are Charlemagne (748), Joseph Goebbels (1897), Otto von Bismarck (1815), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), Henry Kissinger (1923), and Frederick the Great (1712). After her are Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368), Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (912), Heinrich Himmler (1900), Hermann Göring (1893), Christian IX of Denmark (1818), and William I, German Emperor (1797).

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