Achieving woman: Germany’s Angela Merkel, the most powerful woman on earth?

Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel (Courtesy)

German leader Angela Merkel, who is considered the most powerful woman on earth, was born Angela Dorothea Kasner in the year 1954 in Hamburg in West Germany. She moved to Templin in 1957 where she attended high school in 1973 and went to Leipzigto to study Physics at the Karl Marx University which is now known as the University of Leipzig where obtained a doctorate in quantum chemistry in the year 1986 and worked as a research scientist until the year 1989.

Angela met her first husband Ulrich Markel while at the university and they got married in 1977. Angela and Ulrich got divorced in 1982 and she kept his last name but got remarried to Joachim Sauer in the year 1998.