Angela Merkel
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Dr Angela Dorothea Merkel (born 17 July 1954, in Hamburg) is a German politician, and the Chancellor of Germany since 22 November 2005.
She was born in Hamburg, and grew up in the German Democratic Republic (which was the old East Germany, before the two Germanys became one) where she lived until the Reuniting of Germany in 1990. Merkel is now married to Joachim Sauer, a professor of chemistry. Angela Merkel currently chairs (is in charge of) the German conservative party, the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).
Merkel became Germany's first female chancellor on 22 November 2005 in a coalition of the two biggest German political parties CDU/CSU and SPD.
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