Ronny Hartmann / Getty Images Angela Merkel (born Angela Dorothea Kasner on July 17, 1954) was chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021. She was the first woman to hold the office and the second ...

Angela Merkel, the former German chancellor, was the head of the union when the UK voted to leave. In her memoir, Freedom, published this week, she wrote that the EU was weakened by the move.