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
Gerhard Schröder
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Gerhard "Gerd" Fritz Kurt Schröder is a German former politician and lobbyist who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005. From 1999 to 2004, he was also the Leader of the Social Democratic
Angela Merkel
…hired Beate Baumann, who would remain a close advisor to Merkel. Merkel's performance as Minister of the Environment was criticised as "pitiful" by Gerhard Schröder. After the Kohl Government was defeated at the 1998 election, Merkel was appointed Secretary-General of the CDU. The 1998 election had widespread…
Schröder in 2019
"SPD – Trust in Germany": Schröder in Esslingen
Gerhard Schröder with Polish president Aleksander Kwaśniewski on 6 December 2000
Gerhard Schröder with US president George W. Bush in Washington on 9 October 2001