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Chancellor of Germany, from 22 November, 2005 to 8 December, 2021

Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2015

Member of the Bundestag for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, from 20 December, 1990 to 26 October, 2021, Minister for Women and Youth, from 18 January, 1991 to 17 November, 1994, Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, from 17 November, 1994 to 26 October, 1998, and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union, from 10 April, 2000 to 7 December, 2018, among other duties