Barack Obama seems to be “at peace with himself,” mused a wistful Angela Merkel a few months after ... in 1954, but her father, a Left-wing idealist, moved the young family to East Germany ...

Angela Merkel was born Angela Dorothea Kasner on July 17, 1954, in Hamburg, which was then part of West Germany. Her father, Horst Kasner, was a Lutheran pastor, and her mother was a teacher of ...

I first encountered Angela Merkel when I was the Eastern European ... was the result of a strict academic upbringing. Her father was a clergyman in the East German provinces and Merkel was a ...