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Angela Merkel – her political career in pictures
Angela Merkel was born in Hamburg on 17 July Just a few weeks later, her father accepted a pastorate in the former GDR and the family moved to the eastern part of Germany, behind the Iron Curtain.
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She obtained a doctorate in physics and joined the “Demokratischer Aufbruch” (i.e. Democratic Beginning) party during the peaceful revolution of . In , Angela Merkel was the first woman to be elected German chancellor, and the first former GDR citizen to take up this office.
The path to the chancellery
Government spokesperson in the GDR – during the peaceful revolution in the GDR, Angela Merkel joined the “Demokratischer Aufbruch” (DA, i.e.
Democratic Beginning) party in and became the deputy government spokesperson in the first and indeed last freely elected government of the GDR in The DA, and with it Merkel, joined the CDU in On the photograph, she is sitting between Federal Finance Minister Theo Waigel (righ
