The Paper' Comprehensive Report by Sun Zhan
Merkel will end 16 years in power.
On September 26, Germany will usher in a new parliamentary election, and Merkel, who has been in power for 16 consecutive years, is finally no longer the center of the election.
Angela Merkel, the first female chancellor in German history.
Merkel has been re-elected three times since winning her first general election in 2005. Merkel is the first female chancellor in German history, she is one of the most influential people in the world, she is the American "Time" of the year, praising her people called her "the conscience of Europe", people who feared her called her "Black Widow", known as "Iron Lady", "German Mother" and other titles. Her 16-year chancellorship also made Merkel the third-longest German helmsman in German history after Bismarck and Kohl.
Merkel as a young man.
Born in 1954 in Hamburg, Germany, Merkel's grandfather was a Pole who moved to Germany, giving Merkel a quarter of her original Polish ancestry. Shortly after Merkel's birth, the family moved to the GDR, when the Berlin Wall, which had separated East and West Germany for decades, had not yet been built.
In 1991, Merkel, inaugurated as Minister of the German Federal Ministry for Women and Youth on the day of the ceremony.
On October 16, 1991, Angela Merkel, Germany, attended a cabinet meeting.
From 1973 to 1978, Merkel studied physics at the university of Leipzig in the former GDR, worked at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the former GDR Academy of Sciences from 1978 to 1990, and received her doctorate in physics in 1986. On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall "fell." This important event changed Merkel's life, she was actively involved in politics, participated in the "Rise of Democracy" organization in the GDR, and then entered the last government of the GDR period, becoming deputy spokesperson for Chancellor de Mézier. In 1990, Merkel's "Rise of Democracy" merged with the CDU organization in the GDR, and Merkel subsequently became a member of the CDU. At the end of 1990, in the first general election after German reunification, Merkel successfully won a direct seat in the Stralsund Rügen Grimm constituency and became a bundesman. Soon after, he was added to the cabinet by Helmut Kohl and rose to prominence in German politics.
Merkel (left), Federal Minister for Women and Youth, Berlin, Speaks to students during a visit to an international youth conference in Bayreuth, Germany, August 22, 1992.
On February 28, 1993, then German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel.
German Environment Minister Angela Merkel holds up a test tube filled with water at the water control station in Bad Hornif on January 12, 1995.
From 1991 to 1998, Merkel was Vice-President of the CDU, from 1991 to 1994 as Federal Minister for Women and Youth, and from 1994 to 1998 as Federal Minister for environment, nature conservation and reactor safety.
On 6 November 1998, the CDU elected Secretary-General Angela Merkel through a new election.
On 10 April 2000, Angela Merkel was elected President of the CDU at the CDU Assembly in Essen, Germany.
In 1998, after the League's defeat in the general election, Scheuble succeeded Kohl as CDU president, and Merkel was appointed general secretary of the party. At the end of 1999, the CDU's "black gold case" of receiving donations from political parties during the Kohl period was exposed, and the whole of Germany was shocked. Soon after, CDU party chairman Schaeuble announced that he would not run for the post of party chairman because he could not get involved. So at the Essen Party Congress in April 2000, Merkel was elected president of the CDU, finally reaching the peak of the CDU's power and becoming the CDU's first female leader.
In Prerow, Germany, on September 10, 2005, German chancellor candidate Angela Merkel walked past her poster.
New German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, pays tribute to outgoing Chancellor Angelaeus Schroeder, left, at a handover ceremony at the Chancellor's Palace in Berlin on November 22, 2005. Merkel officially became Germany's first female federal chancellor.
On 30 May 2005, Merkel officially represented the CDU and CSU in a federal election on 18 September to compete with Chancellor Schröder for the next chancellor. On October 10, the CDU and the SPD reached a consensus in the nearly two months of joint cabinet negotiations, confirming Merkel as federal chancellor, and on November 22, 2005, Merkel officially became Germany's first female federal chancellor.
Since then, Merkel has embarked on a 16-year-long road to chancellorship. During her 16-year chancellorship, she has led Germany through crises large and small, including the global financial crisis, the euro crisis, the refugee crisis, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.
On January 21, 2007, local time, Sochi, Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
On August 24, 2008, local time, in Berlin, Germany, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (center) welcomed visitors at the "Gateway Open Day" event held at the Chancellery.
On June 7, 2012, local time, in Berlin, Germany, Cameron (right) and Merkel (center) held discussions with students, and Norwegian Prime Minister Stoltenberg and British Prime Minister David Cameron traveled to Berlin to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The three leaders then joined 100 students on a television show. Merkel will discuss the European debt crisis with Cameron.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel attended the quarter-finals of Euro 2012 in Gdansk, Poland, on 22 June 2012, with Germany playing against Greece.
On September 5, 2015, local time, in Munich, Germany, refugees from Syria held up a photo of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Thousands of migrants arrived in Germany via Hungary and Austria. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has previously said she can cope with the wave of newly arrived refugees without raising taxes and affecting the budget.
On September 10, 2015, local time, in Berlin, Germany, German Chancellor Angela Merkel comforted refugees who arrived in Germany to seek refuge.
On June 8, 2015, local time, during the G7 summit in Kruen, Germany, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Barack Obama exchanged views.
On June 9, 2018, local time, La Malbai, Canada, on the second day of the Group of Seven summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other national leaders talked with US President Trump.
On November 10, 2018, local time, Compiègne, northern France, at the 100th anniversary of the Armistice of World War I, French President Emmanuel Macron hugged German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
On August 21, 2019, local time, in Berlin, Germany, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and visiting British Prime Minister Johnson drank wine on the balcony of the Chancellery. British Prime Minister Johnson recently asked the EU to restart negotiations on the Brexit agreement, visiting Germany and France on the 21st and 22nd to win the support of the leaders of the two countries.
On April 18, 2021, local time, in Berlin, the capital of Germany, Germany held a mourning ceremony for more than 80,000 people who died of new crown pneumonia, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attended the ceremony.
On July 15, 2021, local time, in Washington, D.C., the United States, German Chancellor Merck visited the United States and held talks with US President Joe Biden to discuss issues such as epidemic response, climate change, economic recovery and security.
On December 7, 2018, local time, hamburg, Germany, the national congress of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was held. According to the results of the elections, CDU Secretary-General Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer succeeded German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the new CDU President.
On December 7, 2018, local time, German Chancellor Angela Merkel waved goodbye after delivering a speech.
On July 25, 2021, in Bayreuth, Bavaria, southeastern Germany, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband Joachim Sauer attended the opening ceremony of the Bayreuth Festival.
On October 29, 2018, Merkel said at a Christian Democratic Union press conference that she would not seek re-election as leader of the Christian Democratic Union in December. In addition, after the end of the term, there will be no further search for the post of prime minister in 2021. The 2021 German general election will be held on September 26, and the "most important european leader" in more than a decade has entered the final moments of his reign, and Germany is about to usher in the post-Merkel era.
Editor-in-Charge: Shi Xunfeng
Proofreader: Yan Zhang