Birth Name: Angela Dorothea Kasner
Place of Birth: Hamburg, West Germany
Date of Birth: 17 July 1954
Ethnicity: German, 1/4 Polish
Family info: Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of Germany since 2005.
She was born to Horst Kasner, a native of Berlin, and his wife Herlind Jentzsch, born in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland).
Merkel’s maternal granfather was Danzig politician Willi Jentzsch; her maternal great-grandfather was the city clerk of Elbing (now Elbląg, Poland) Emil Drange.
Merkel has Polish ancestry through her paternal grandfather, Ludwig Kasner, a German national of Polish origin from Posen (now Poznań). The family’s original name Kaźmierczak was Germanized to Kasner in 1930.
Source: http://www.dw.de/the-german-chancellors-polish-roots/a-16698783
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