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Angela Merkel is the first female Chancellor of Germany and is the Chairwoman of Christian Democratic Union. She was ranked fourth in Forbes world's most powerful person in 2011. She has been responsible for various important decisions in European Union.

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Angela Dorothea Kasner or Angela Merkel was born on 17 July 1954 in Hamburg to Horst Kasner and Herlind and has a brother and sister Marcus and Irene. She was first married to Ulrich Merkel but got divorced in 1982 then she married Joachim Sauer in 1998.

From 1991 to 1994 she was a Federal Minister for Women and Youth, from 1994 to 1998 she remained a Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, from 1998 to 2000 she became Secretary General of CDU (Christian Democratic Union) and in 2000 she finally became the chairwoman.

In the year 2005 she became the Chancellor of Germany and was re-elected in 2009.

She was the second woman who chaired the G8 summit. She did so in 2007. She was the President of the European Council at that time.

Awards:

• She received the Vision for Europe Award-2006
• She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem-2007
• She was awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany-2008.
• She was awarded the honorary doctorate from Leipzig University-2008
• She was ranked first in Forbes magazine as The World's 100 Most Powerful Women in the year 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011.
• She was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom from U.S. President Barack Obama-2011.
• She was awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Award for the year 2009-2011.