What is Angela Merkel?
{{Infobox Officeholder | name = Angela Merkel | image = Angela Merkel 2019 cropped.jpg | caption = Merkel in 2019 | office = [[Chancellor of Germany]] | status = | president = [[Horst Köhler]] <small>(2005–2010)</small><br>[[Christian Wulff]] <small>(2010–2012)</small><br>[[Joachim Gauck]] <small>(2012–2017)</small><br>[[Frank-Walter Steinmeier]] <small>(2017–present)</small> | deputy = [[Franz Müntefering]] <small>(2005–2007)</small><br>Frank-Walter Steinmeier <small>(2007–2009)</small><br>[[Guido Westerwelle]] <small>(2009–2011)</small><br>[[Philipp Rösler]] <small>(2011–2013)</small><br> [[Sigmar Gabriel]] <small>(2013–2018)</small> <br> [[Olaf Scholz]] <small>(since 2018)</small> | term_start = 22 November 2005 | term_end = 8 December 2021 | predecessor = [[Gerhard Schröder]] | successor = [[Olaf Scholz]] | office2 = [[Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (Germany)|Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety]] | chancellor2 = [[Helmut Kohl]] | term_start2 = 17 November 1994 | term_end2 = 26 October 1998 | predecessor2 = [[Klaus Töpfer]] | successor2 = [[Jürgen Trittin]] | office3 = [[Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth|Minister for Women and Youth]] | chancellor3 = [[Helmut Kohl]] | term_start3 = 18 January 1991 | term_end3 = 17 November 1994 | predecessor3 = [[Ursula Lehr]] | successor3 = [[Claudia Nolte]] | office4 = Member of the [[Bundestag]] | term_start4 = 2 December 1990 | term_end4 = 26 October 2021 | constituency4 = [[Stralsund – Nordvorpommern – Rügen (electoral constituency)|Stralsund – Nordvorpommern – Rügen]] | birth_name = Angela Dorothea Kasner | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|7|17|df=y}} | birth_place