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Q: Where was Angela Merkel educated?

Merkel finished (1973) high school in Templin, East Germany, and received (1978) a bachelor’s degree in physics at Karl Marx University (now the University of Leipzig). She then worked at the Central Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences in East Berlin , earning (1986) a doctorate for her thesis on quantum chemistry .

Q: What did Angela Merkel accomplish?

During her time as the first female chancellor of Germany , Merkel was a leading figure in European politics, championing austerity as the path to recovery for Europe’s damaged economies . Faced with Europe’s gravest refugee crisis since World War II , she maintained that Germany would keep its borders open in the face of the humanitarian emergency.

Q: What did Angela Merkel do to help the world?

When hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing conflicts in Syria , Afghanistan , and elsewhere flocked to the European Union , Merkel advocated for the resettlement of large numbers of people in Germany. As a result, more than one million migrants entered Germany in 2015 alone, sparing them the danger of having to return to their war-torn countries.

chancellor of Germany

Also known as: Angela Dorothea Kasner

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Née:: Angela Dorothea Kasner

Born:: July 17, 1954, Hamburg, West Germany (age 69)

Title / Office:: chancellor (2005-2021), Germany

Political Affiliation:: Christian Democratic Union

Awards And Honors:: Presidential Medal of Freedom (2011)

Role In:: euro-zone debt crisis

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Angela Merkel (born July 17, 1954, Hamburg, West Germany) German politician who served as chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She was the first woman to hold that office and the second longest-serving chancellor in German history. Merkel’s parents, Horst and Herlind Kasner, met in Hamburg, where her father was a theology student and her mother was a teacher of Latin and English. After completing his education, her father accepted a pastorate in Quitzow, Brandenburg, and the family relocated to East Germany (German Democratic Republic) just weeks after Merkel’s birth. In 1957 they moved again to Templin, where Merkel ...(100 of 2303 words)

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