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|title=Angela Merkel: The Chancellor and Her World

|author=Stefan Kornelius

|publisher=Alma Books Ltd

|date=June 2014

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|summary=This authorized biography sheds light on the person behind the politician from her youthful days of hitch-hiking in Tbilisi to being the guest of honour at a White House state dinner and examines how a girl from East Germany rose to the highest ranks of European power.

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You have to admire the lady, this rather awkward and shy daughter of a staunch Lutheran pastor who himself had been born as a Polish Catholic. His daughter studied with such intelligence and application that soon brought her academic success particularly in Russian and finally in Quantum Chemistry. At the age of 26, she obtained her doctorate and - in passing, it rather seems - her first husband, the physicist Ulrike Merkel. Her rise to power was rapid and took place through the period in which the DDR collapsed as Russian policy under Gorbachev changed. Along with a wry and dry sense of humour Angela Merkel’s personality is the embodiment of the characteristic known in German as ''fleissig'' - hardworking, sedulous, diligent and assiduous.

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