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Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel, the first woman to serve as chancellor of Germany, 2012.
Angela Merkel was first elected to the Bundestag—the lower house of the German parliament—in December 1990, during the first post-reunification election. She represented the constituency of Stralsund-Rügen-Grimmen.1