Family of Angela Merkel
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Current region | Germany Poland |
Members | Angela Merkel, Horst Kasner, Ludwig Kasner |
Connected members | Herlind Kasner, Willi Jentzsch, Marcus Kasner |
Connected families | Kasner |
Traditions | Lutheranism |
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The family of Angela Merkel, the former Chancellor of Germany, is of German and Polish descent. Merkel was born Angela Dorothea Kasner on 17 July 1954 in Hamburg. The Kasner name is derived from Jan Kaźmierczak, a Pole from Poznań who lived in the 18th century. Merkel's grandfather changed the name to Kasner in 1930. Merkel has been married twice, and kept the name of her first husband, Ulrich Merkel. Angela Merkel's family was extensively discussed in a 2013 biography.[1]
Paternal relations
Horst Kasner
Horst Kasner (né Horst Kaźmierczak; born 6 August 1926 in Berlin, died 2 September 2011 in Templin) was the father of Angela Merkel, and was a Protestant theologian.
Ludwig Kasner
Ludwig Kasner (né Ludwik Marian Kaźmierczak; born 1896 in Posen,
Maternal relations
Herlind Kasner
Herlind Kasner (née Jentzsch; born on 8 July 1928 in the Free City of Danzig, died 6 April 2019 in Templin) was the mother of Angela Merkel and a teacher of English and Latin. She continued to teach English at an adult education center in Templin into her 80s.[2]
Willi Jentzsch
Willi Jentzsch (born 15 May 1886 in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, died 23 May 1936 in the Free City of Danzig) was the maternal grandfather of Angela Merkel. He was a teacher, school administrator and politician in the Free City of Danzig, and was elected as one of the eleven Senators of the Free City of Danzig on 27 October 1926, but resigned on 1 November 1927 to become rector of the renowned Gymnasium St. Johann in Fleischergasse. In March 1936, he became school director in Danzig, and thus head of all elementary schools in the city-state.
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Siblings
Marcus Kasner
Marcus Kasner (born 7 July 1957 in Perleberg) is the only brother of Angela Merkel and is a theoretical physicist.
His early career paralleled that of his sister Angela; like her he studied physics, earned a doctoral degree in physics (Dr.rer.nat.) and worked as a researcher at the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin. He earned his Habilitation with the dissertation Electronic correlation in the quantum Hall regime at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg in 2002.[3] He has published papers in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review and Physica. Kasner currently teaches at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt and lives in Darmstadt.[4]
During the
Irene Kasner
Irene Kasner (born 19 August 1964) is the only sister of Angela Merkel and is an occupational therapist.
Spouses
Ulrich Merkel
Ulrich Merkel (born in 1953) was the first husband of Angela Merkel. He met Angela Kasner in 1974 when they were both physics students, and they married in 1977. The marriage ended in divorce in 1982. Angela Merkel kept her first husband's last name.[7]
Joachim Sauer
Joachim Sauer (born 19 April 1949) is the second husband of Angela Merkel. He is a quantum chemist and full professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He married Angela Merkel on 30 December 1998.
References
- ISBN 978-3455502916.
- ^ "Angela Merkel's mother, Herlind Kasner, dies aged 90". Deutsche Welle. 10 April 2019. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
- ^ Bartz, Bettina, ed. (2003). "Kasner, Marcus". Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender. Vol. 2 (19 ed.). K.G. Saur. p. 1554.
- ^ "Marcus Kasner". Goethe University Frankfurt.
- ^ "Die Schläferin". Der Spiegel.
- ^ "Bei Merkels unterm Sofa". Focus.
- ^ "Biographie: Angela Merkel, geb. 1954". DHM. Archived from the original on 25 February 2009. Retrieved 2 March 2010.