Angela Merkel was elected leader of Germany in 2005 ... Like most young people in East Germany at that time, Merkel joined the Free German Youth, the official communist youth movement sponsored ...

These pejoratives condemn former German Christian Democratic Union Chancellor Angela Merkel’s overweight 700-page memoir as ...

The former chancellor’s autobiography, Freedom, is unlikely to lend her a Churchillian place in modern German history ...

Angela Merkel’s long-anticipated memoir ... party under Chancellor Helmut Kohl — first as federal minister for women and youth, later for the environment. No one during Merkel’s early ...

Merkel, who was born Angela Kasner on July 17 ... she was appointed minister for women and youth in 1991. She went on to win election as party general secretary in 1998, the first female leader ...