Other Facts: Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl sometimes referred to her as "the girl." She is a trained physicist. Timeline: 1978-1990 - Research associate at Zentralinstitut fur Physikalische Chemie in ...

Editor's note: Angela Merkel steps down Wednesday after 16 years as Germany's chancellor. Earlier this fall, NPR caught up with some people who remembered her earliest days as a politician and asked ...

Angela Dorothea Merkel is a German Stateswomen and the current Chancellor of Germany. She has held the office since 2005.

Germany's longest serving post-war chancellor from 1982 to 1998, Helmut Kohl was a driving force behind the introduction of the euro currency.

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Angela Merkel, former chancellor of Germany. 1978-1990 - Research associate at Zentralinstitut für Physikalische Chemie in Berlin. 1990 - Becomes press officer for ...