See Vintage Photos of a Young Angela Merkel. 1 minute read. Angela Kasner, 18, with friends at a New Year's Eve party in Berlin in 1972. Glaescher/laif/Redux. By TIME Staff.

ANGELA MERKLE announced today she will not seek re-election as CDU party leader next month. Take a look at the the German Chancellor in pictures throughout her 18 year leadership.

THIS is the moment German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced herself on to the world stage, as it was today revealed she will step down from the party she has led for 18 years.

Angela Merkel in pictures: The German Chancellor's career in politics, football, beer and sausages 09 October 2015 • 9:52am Angela Dorothea Merkel was born on July 17, 1954.

Merkel isn't one to divulge too much private information about what her life was like growing up behind the Iron Curtain. But she did tell a group of young people last year that she had smuggled ...

German newspaper Bild publishes 1972 snap of young Merkel in East German military drill. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES uk. Money ... German Tabloid Publishes Photo of Angela Merkel in Communist Uniform ...

German photographer Herlinde Koelbl still remembers her first photo session with a shy and awkward young woman named Angela Merkel back in 1991. "I was struck by her power even though she was an ...