Merkel spends her birthday working. This is part of her personal life.

Merkel was born named Angela Dorothea Cassner in 1954 in Hamburg, West Germany.

Merkel is of German and Polish origin. Gyshi from Ludwick Kasner was a German police officer with Polish ethnicity who had participated in Poland's struggle for independence in the early 20th century. In 1930 alone, her father's family had Germanized the name Kazmierczak in Kasner.

Since the mid-1990s it has publicly mentioned Polish origin and in some cases has described itself as a quarter-polax.

She had studied physics at Karl Marx University in Leipzig from 1973 to 1978. During her schooling, Merkel had learned to speak fluent Russian and had received rewards for her Russian and mathematics skills.

In 1977, Angela had married Ulrich Merkel, a physics student, taking his surname. The marriage was over after five years. At her second marriage, she was married to Joachim Sawyer, who had remained out of media attention.

Merkel is a fierce soccer fan and is known to listen to the games while working in Bundestag and also closely escorts Germany's national team.

She fears dogs after being attacked by one in 1995. Vladimir Putin had brought a gift to a Labrador during a press conference in 2007, frightening the Chancellor. He had said that he was going to scare her, but Merkel was still revenged by saying, I understand why he had to do this to prove he's a man... he's afraid of his own weaknesses. ”

Criticals

Merkel has been sharply criticised for supporting Danish caricaturist Kurt Westergaard, who had made the cartoon of prophet Muhammad. At the same time, she had condemned the planned burning of Kurds by a fundamentalist pastor in Florida.

Her statement “Islami is part of Germany” during Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's state-run visit in January 2015 had also caused a big stir and had sparked serious attacks on it. /Periscope