Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German politician serving as the chancellor of Germany since 2005. She served as the leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 2000 to 2018. Merkel has been widely described as the de facto leader of the European Union, the most powerful woman in the world, and by some commentators as the “leader of the free world”. After her party lost the federal election in 1998, Merkel was elected Secretary-General of the CDU before becoming the party’s first female leader two years later in the aftermath of a donations scandal that toppled Wolfgang Schäuble.
Following the 2005 federal election, Merkel was appointed Germany’s first female chancellor at the head of a grand coalition consisting of the CDU, its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). After the 2017 federal election the CDU was again the largest party; she was reelected to her fourth term on 14 March 2018. In 2014 she became the longest-serving incumbent head of government in the European Union.
Angela Merkel has an estimated net worth of $11 million.
Net Worth: | $11 Million |
Date of birth: | July 17, 1954 |
Country: | Germany |
Source of wealth: | Chancellor of Germany |
