German Chancellor Angela Merkel was named Time magazin's Person of the Year 2015. The magazine highlited her role in Europe's migration crises and Greek debt. Angela Merkel (Angela Dorothea Kasner) was born on July 17, 1954 in Hamburg to a family of a Lutheran pastor and a teacher. Merkel finished school with honors and went on to study physics at Leipzig university. She got involved in politics in late 1980’s. After the Kohl Government was defeated at the 1998 election, Merkel was appointed Secretary-General of the CDU. After winning elections in November 2005, Angela Merkel has been Chancellor of Germany. Her ratings in Germany have remained high during her office. Angela Merkel has repeatedly been named world’s most powerful woman. Angela Merkel's 2015 - in this photo gallery by TASS.
Angela Merkel's 2015 in pictures
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was named Time magazin's Person of the Year 2015
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Angela Merkel leading the weekly cabinet meeting of her government at the chancellery, April 1, 2015 in Berlin
© AP Photo/Markus Schreiber German Chancellor Angela Merkel among world leaders marching at rally in Paris, France, Jan. 11, 2015 following terrorist attack on the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
© AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer, Pool German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko during Minsk talks in Belarus, Feb. 11, 2015
© AP Photo/ Mykhailo Palinchak/Pool Angela Merkel feeding a lemur during her visit at the bird park in Marlow, Germany, April 30, 2015
© Jens Buettner/dpa via AP Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, May 10, 2015. Angela Merkel attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, marking the 70th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, in Moscow
© Sergei Karpukhin/Pool Photo via AP Angela Merkel posing for a group photo of G-7 leaders in Germany, June 8, 2015
© AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster German chancellor Angela Merkel and US president Barack Obama at G-7 summit in Germany
© Michaek Kappeler/Pool Photo via AP, File Angela Merkel at a meeting in Berlin, July 16, 2015
© AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy seen during a meeting in the village Meseberg, Germany, August 31, 2015
© AP Photo/Markus Schreiber German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, October 2, 2015
© AP Photo/Michel Euler Angela Merkel listening to a meeting of the German Federal Parliament in Berlin, Germany, November 25, 2015
© AP Photo/Michael Sohn German Chancellor Angela Merkel talking with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during the EU summit in Brussels, Belgium, October 15, 2015. European Union heads of state met to discuss migration crisis.
© AP Photo/Martin Meissner Angela Merkel at the European Union Parliament in Strasbourg, France, October 7, 2015
© AP Photo/Michael Probst