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Also Known As Angela Dorothea Kasner
Born July 17, 1954 (age 70) • Hamburg • Germany
Title / Office chancellor (2005-2021), Germany
Political Affiliation Christian Democratic Union
Awards And Honors Presidential Medal of Freedom (2011)
Role In euro-zone debt crisis

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Helmut Kohl
Helmut Kohl
chancellor of Germany
Roman Herzog
president of Germany
Friedrich Merz
Friedrich Merz
German politician
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
August Thyssen
German industrialist
Oskar Lafontaine
German politician
Amelia zur Helle Thyssen
German industrialist and philanthropist
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner
German composer
Frederick II
Frederick II
Holy Roman emperor
Frederick I during the Crusades
Frederick I
Holy Roman emperor
Gustav Stresemann
Gustav Stresemann
chancellor of Germany
Henry IV
Henry IV
Holy Roman emperor
Louis IV
Holy Roman emperor
Justus von Liebig
Justus, baron von Liebig
German chemist
Olaf Scholz
Olaf Scholz
chancellor of Germany
Philip
Philip
landgrave of Hesse
Maximilian I
Maximilian I
Holy Roman emperor
Friedrich Ebert, c. 1924.
Friedrich Ebert
president of Weimar Republic

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