Angela Merkel’sshort biography
In Hamburg, West Germany, the couple of Horst Kasner and HerlindKasner welcomed their first child, Angela, into the world in 1954.A few weeks later, the father Horst, who wasan official in the Lutheran Church, move the family eastwards to GermanDemocratic Republic, where Angela spent her childhood and obtained adoctorate.
A neighborhood crammed with physically and mentally disabledpeople is never an ideal place for children upbringing, luckily, life atWaldhof did not cast a shadow over little Angela.With a possession of two cars, oneprivate-owned Trabant and one official car Wartburg, and material assistanceoffered by their Hamburg relatives, young Angela had an enviable life comparedwith her companions to her neighbors.Motivatedby her mother’s zest for learning, student Angela put her heart and soul intostudy, unlike other teenager girls who were attracted to dress up.Brilliant as she was, Angela was selected tocompete in East Germany’s Russian-language Olympiad and won the nationalchampionshipthree times in arow.This language skill comes handylater in her political life when meeting with Russia’s President.
Merkel’s academic path wasconsidered rather smooth, a doctorate in quantum chemistry in Berlin, whileothers embroiled in resistance to communist state can hardly made it throughhigh school.She was treated differentlypartly attributed to her participation of the Free German Youth, which wassupported by the ruling party.Heradulthood was intertwined with the passion for the culture of the Soviet Unionand the resistance to the dictator style ruling of it.
