A young Angela Merkel plays with a doll and a pram at a young age at home in Templin. (Angela-Merkel.de)Tucked away in the small town of Templin, just north of Berlin in East Germany, Merkel grew ...

Angela Merkel's unlikely journey from Communist East Germany to the Chancellorship The German leader, who marks 10 years in office this weekend, is hailed by some as the most powerful statesperson ...

Angela Merkel is stepping down after 16 years as Germany's chancellor. Earlier this fall, NPR caught up with some people who remembered her earliest days as a politician and reflected on her legacy.

Merkel was born in Hamburg, West Germany, in 1954, but she grew up in East Germany. Her father, Horst Kasner, was a Lutheran minister and her mother, Herlind, was an English teacher. Ossenbrink/SIPA ...

In 2015, Angela Merkel, the Federal Republic of Germany’s first chancellor from what was East Germany, chose to welcome into Germany about 1 million people, many of them Syrians, fleeing Middle ...

This was in East Germany during the '70s and '80s, when it really did look like the Soviet empire was forever. ... to think of a time when Angela Merkel was not leading Germany.

Ten years after the dramatic summer of 2015, the ultimate protagonist of the "Greek drama" appeared yesterday on the stage of ...

With a parade of torch-bearing soldiers and a 1970s hit from the Communist East, Germany’s Angela Merkel bid farewell as chancellor. She leaves office next week. By Katrin Bennhold BERLIN — In ...

Merkel was born in West Germany, raised in East Germany, and studied chemistry. She entered politics in 1990, just after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday called on Europe to stand up to President Trump on tariffs and said Vice ...

Former Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel received the country's highest honor from President Frank-Walter Steinmeier for 16 years of service.

Premiering at Telluride, “Merkel,” Eva Weber’s documentary on former Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, seems like a star-studded fête featuring many world leaders and dignitaries, such ...