Family of Angela Merkel
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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.
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