Olaf Scholz has lost a vote of confidence in his leadership and Germany now faces its first election of the truly post-Angela ...

Angela Merkel was elected leader of Germany in 2005 ... Merkel was born in West Germany, raised in then-communist East Germany, and earned a Ph.D. in quantum chemistry before entering politics ...

Merkel, who was born Angela Kasner on July 17, 1954, in Hamburg, traveled a few months later with her mother, Herlind, to Soviet-occupied East Germany. There they met up with her father ...

Angela Merkel’s long-anticipated memoir, “Freedom,” already translated into 30 languages, could not be timed more perfectly.

The ex-chancellor's memoir, "Freedom," has sold 200,000 copies in Germany in just one week on bookstore shelves. Angela ...

BERLIN — Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel recalls Vladimir Putin ... matter-of-fact account of her early life in communist East Germany and her later career in politics, laced with ...

“I am deeply sorry to see Chancellor Angela Merkel leave the political ... The daughter of a Church minister from the former East Germany, Merkel is the European Union’s longest-serving ...

In Germany, the AfD secured ... by a former member of the old East German communist party. The rejection of the mainstream is ...

We met former German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a fitting place for her ... up in the Communist-controlled police state that was East Germany. Her family had moved there when she was an infant ...

Angela Merkel’s long-anticipated memoir ... The book’s recollection of how a woman from East Germany climbed to the top of German politics and the international stage is inspiring as ...

Naturally, there’s a German word that perfectly captures Angela Merkel’s dry ... starting with her upbringing in East Germany. She went on to earn a doctorate in quantum chemistry, and ...

After a childhood behind the Iron Curtain, Angela Merkel served as Chancellor of a united Germany for 16 years, becoming the ...