Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Chapters: Petra Kelly, Angela Merkel, Claudia Roth, Gabriele Zimmer, Renate Künast, Erika Steinbach, Annemarie Renger, Margot Honecker, Ursula von der Leyen, Ursula Caberta, Heidi Lück, Clara Zetkin, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Alexandra Prinzessin von Hannover, Gisela Stuart, Sabine Bergmann-Pohl, Sahra Wagenknecht, Monika Stolz, Lucy Redler, Herta Däubler-Gmelin, Kristina Schröder, Claudia Nolte, Hannelore Kraft, Andrea Ypsilanti, Luise Kähler, Ursula Engelen-Kefer, Christel Wegner, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Petra Roth, Hedwig Dransfeld, Hilde Benjamin, Andrea Nahles, Marianne Birthler, Elly Heuss-Knapp, Jutta Limbach, Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt, Louise Schroeder, Bärbel Beuermann, Christine Teusch, Ilse Aigner, Brigitte Zypries, Carmen Everts, Lissy Gröner, Rita Süssmuth, Lotte Ulbricht, Franziska Brantner, Heide Simonis, Katherina Reiche, Ulla Schmidt, Annette Schavan, Gabriele Pauli, Renate Schmidt, Waltrude Schleyer, Karin Wolff, Charlotte Knobloch, Katina Schubert, Regine Hildebrandt, Cornelia Pieper, Elly Winter, Anja Hajduk, Ruth Fuchs, Gesine Lötzsch, Dagmar Metzger, Margot Kalinke, Petra Pau, Käte Strobel, Uta Zapf, Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, Aygül Özkan, Maria Probst, Evelyn Haas, Franziska Drohsel, Helma Orosz, Johanna Grund, Julia Bonk, Rebecca Harms, Silke Tesch, Rosemarie Hein, Ulla Jelpke, Angelika Beer, Monika Harms, Katja Kipping, Sevim Dagdelen, Christine Lucyga, Karin von Welck, Hannelore Rönsch, Christel Augenstein, Dagmar Wöhrl, Hilde Schramm, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, Sabine Jünger, Ekin Deligöz, Grietje Staffelt, Gertrud Bäumer, Michaele Schreyer, Birgitt Bender, Lale Akgün, Marion Caspers-Merk, Edelgard Bulmahn, Barbara Stamm, Andrea Fischer, Monika Griefahn, Maria Böhmer, Antje Vollmer, Eva Bulling-Schröter, Ulrike Poppe, Marie-Elisabeth Lueders, Wilhelmine Kähler, Aenne Brauksiepe, Anna Lührmann, Heike Wilms-Kegel, Kerstin Andreae, Christine Buchholz, Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler, Sibyll-Anka Klotz, Ulla Burchardt, Angelika Volquartz, Miriam Staudte, Angelika Brunkhorst, Marieluise Beck, Sarah Sorge, Gitta Connemann, Heidrun Bluhm, Ingrid Arndt-Brauer, Karin Evers-Meyer, Monika Brüning, Veronika Bellmann, Cornelia Behm, Antje Blumenthal, Ina Korter, Renate Blank, Petra Bierwirth, Martina Bunge, Karin Binder, Elke Twesten, Filiz Polat, Gabriele Heinen-Kljajic, Ursula Helmhold, Gesine Meißner, Silke Stokar von Neuforn, Gabriela König, Doris Barnett, Ute Berg. Excerpt: Angela Dorothea Merkel (German: , née Kasner in 1954) is the current Chancellor of Germany (since 22 November 2005). Merkel, elected to the Bundestag (German Parliament) from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 2000, and chairwoman of the CDU-CSU (Christian Social Union) parliamentary coalition from 2002 to 2005. From 2005 to 2009 she led a grand coalition with the Christian Social Union (CSU), its Bavarian sister party, and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), formed after the 2005 federal election on 22 November 2005. In the elections of 27 September 2009, her party, the CDU, obtained the largest share of the votes, and formed a coalition government with the CSU and the Free Democratic Party (FDP). Her government was sworn in on 28 October 2009. In 2007, Merkel was also President of the European Council and chaired the G8. She played a central role in the negotiation of the Treaty of Lisbon and the Berlin Declaration. In dome...