Angela Merkel on the eve of her election in 2005 with parents. Herlind Kasner, Angela Merkel’s mother, from Hamburg was a Latin and English teacher.

Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English language translators to work on the German text of her new autobiography, ... What her parents felt about this inauspicious move, ...

Angela Merkel hired no fewer than eight English language translators to work on her new autobiography, ... What her parents felt about this inauspicious move, ...

Angela Merkel's incredible rise from quantum chemist to the world's most powerful woman. ... In her teenage years, her parents encouraged her to join the Communist youth organization, ...

Angela Merkel's incredible rise from quantum chemist to the world's most powerful woman. ... In her teenage years, her parents encouraged her to join the Communist youth organization, ...

Angela Merkel’s tenure as chancellor has come in for criticism, but her memoir sheds new light. ... Merkel’s parents explained that the ubiquity of the Stasi, or state security, ...

Angela Merkel, the most powerful woman in the world, is no friend of her biographers. It’s not only that the groundbreaking German chancellor routinely refuses to be interviewed. Merkel ...

We learn how Ms. Merkel’s parents, a pastor and a housewife, shielded her from the socialist dictatorship in East Germany and prevented their three children from becoming “bitter and jaded.” ...