“I am sure that the chancellor herself has many of the characteristics that make the people of Templin and of northeastern Germany unique: her quiet composure, her down-to-earth nature and what you also see in her is this Prussian tenacity — that when you start something, you stick with it to the end,” Tabbert told VOA.

The chancellor comes after the president of the parliament.

In order to fund the emergency measures, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is planning to take on more than $168 billion in new debt for the first time since 2013.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Wednesday the German soccer league Bundesliga can resume playing later this month.

Macron, later on Sunday, hosted a peace forum, which the German chancellor says is meant to demonstrate efforts “to do everything to bring a more peaceful order to the world, even though we know we still have much work to do."

Gerhard Schroeder is the first German chancellor not to have lived through World War II.

With the first election of a woman into the seat of chancellor, the feminine complement of the word, "chancelière," was chosen as the Word of the Year in 2005 by the Academy of German Language.

Konrad Adenauer was the first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel congratulated the new U.S. president-elect and his running mate on their projected election victory.

Merkel was Germany’s first female chancellor and its first leader to have been raised in the former East Germany.