Angela Merkel, A Reckoning Force In Germany And Globally
Germany’s beloved chancellor, Angela Merkel has grown into a household name in recent years, and the tenacity of her hard work is cemented in the country’s history. Born in 1954 in Hamburg as Angela Kasner, Merkel was the eldest child of Evangelical Lutheran pastor, Horst Kesner and language teacher, Herlind Jentzsch. Because her family’s faith was not fully accepted in communist East Germany, they remained in the eye of the Stasi for many years of her life…