Angela Merkel
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Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German stateswoman and retired politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She is the only woman to have held the office and the only former East Germ
Merkel in 2019
Merkel's paternal grandparents when engaged: Margarethe and her betrothed, Ludwik Marian Kaźmierczak, in his Polish Blue Army uniform
Lothar de Maizière and Merkel, 1990
Merkel in a CDU campaign poster, 1995
Olaf Scholz
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Olaf Scholz is a German politician who served as the chancellor of Germany from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he previously served as Vice Chancellor in the fourth Merkel cabi
Angela Merkel
…votes. This necessitated long negotiations among the various parties to form a government. On 23 November 2021, a new coalition was announced, with Olaf Scholz nominated to succeed Merkel. Merkel continued to serve as chancellor until 8 December 2021, when Scholz was sworn in. The constituency she had held…
Scholz in 2024
Scholz at the Young Socialists Congress, 1984
Scholz in March 2011, on the government benches in the Hamburg Parliament, shortly after his election as First Mayor
Scholz and the spouses of the heads of state and government at the G20 in Hamburg, 2017