He studied physics and in an interview he was made explained why he made his decision “Not even Erich Honecker, former leader of the party, could reject the laws of nature and mathematical formulas.” In 1973 he completed his baccalaureate and began his studies in physics at the University of Leipzig.
Regarding her private life, it is known that Angela married in the St. Georg Templin Chapel in 1977 with Elrich merkel, a physics student and classmate, one year after his union he concluded his university studies and started working at the Central Institute of Fiscal Chemistry at the Berlin Academy of Sciences. His subject of study is quantum chemistry.
Her married life did not work out quite well and in 1982, she decided to divorce, but to this day she still carries her ex-husband’s last name. Some time later she remarried a chemist named Joachim sauer, has not made public the reasons why she continues to carry the last name of her first husband.
The tenacity of this woman leads her to join the party Demokratischer Aufbruch in 1989 and after twelve months later he went to the CDU. In 1990 she was elected a deputy in the first Bundestag after German reunification.
In 2002 he resigned from this candidacy to give command to Edmund stoiber as the sole candidate for the CDU / CSU union. But Stoiber loses the September 22 election by a few points. In that same month, Angela is named Chairperson of the CDU / CSU faction in Parliament.
Angela was the successor in the position of Gerhard Schoeder Chancellor for seven years until he was defeated in the elections of September 18, 2005.