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Angela Merkel in WatchMojo.com’s Women with Mojo Series


Angela Dorothea Merkel born July
seventeenth 1954 in Hamburg Germany she
is the current Chancellor of Germany
she’s the first female Chancellor of
Germany and the first woman to lead
germany since he became a modern state
nation in 1871 she’s also the youngest
person to ever be Chancellor Merkel grew
up in East Germany she earned a
doctorate in physics in 1978 and later
moved to East Berlin where she worked as
a quantum chemist in 1989 after the fall
of the Berlin Wall she started getting
involved in politics and she joined the
New Democratic Party in 1994 she became
Minister of the Environment and reactor
safety and this gave her more political
visibility and a greater platform to
start a political career on May 30a 2005
she won the cdu/csu nomination as
challenger to the current Chancellor
Schroder for the 2005 national election
in early 2006 with only a hundred days
in office Angela Merkel had the highest
approval rating among Germans ever to be
recorded since nineteen forty nine for a
Chancellor
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