If anything unites the parties in Germany’s election campaign, it is running away from the former chancellor, whose legacy ...

Angela Merkel was elected leader of Germany in 2005 ... Like most young people in East Germany at that time, Merkel joined ...

The German Democratic Republic, where Angela Merkel grew up, was neither democratic nor a republic; it was an Orwellian horror show, where the Iron Curtain found literal expression in the form of ...

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 ...

Naturally, there’s a German word that perfectly captures Angela Merkel’s dry, unemotive rhetorical style: vorsichtigkeit, which means, roughly, prudence. The German chancellor, who at age 63 ...