The Most Powerful Woman in the World

The Most Powerful Woman in the World

The Most Powerful Woman in the World

 

The Most Powerful Woman in the World

In 1977, Angela Kasner married physics student Ulrich Merkel and took his surname. The marriage ended in divorce in 1982.^[ Her second and current husband is quantum chemist and professor Joachim Sauer, who has largely remained out of the media spotlight. They first met in 1981, became a couple later and married privately on 30 December 1998. She has no children, but Sauer has two adult sons from a previous marriage. She is a fervent football fan and has been known to listen to games while in the Bundestag and to attend games of the national team in her official capacity.
On 6 January 2014, Merkel fractured a bone in her pelvis in a cross-country skiing accident in Switzerland.