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Ity of a Politician He Knew Long Before Her 16-Year Reign As German Chancell uly 1990. a press conference in berlin. East Germany’s caretaker government – the last of a country that would soon cease to exist – just signed a major natural gas con- J tract with Russia. Prime minister Lothar de Maizière is keen to be the one to break the news to the media. A young woman in a light blue sum- mer dress hands out press releases to the assembled journalists. The prime minister’s deputy spokesper- son, she soon has journalists’ undivided attention at the post-announcement Q&A. She answers ques- Goodbye,tions left unanswered by the men on the rostrum. Angela Merkel Her name is Angela Merkel. This is how we met. Brunswick’s carl I was there that day as a political correspondent hohenthal on the for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany’s stamina and acu- premier daily. ity of a politician he Five years later, February 1995 in Chernobyl. Angela Merkel, now Germany’s minister for the knew long before environment, is inspecting the nuclear power plant. her 16-year reign as Plans are underway to entomb the destroyed reactor German Chancellor. block in a new protective sarcophagus. A few jour- nalists are on board for the jaunt. One, a reporter from the German magazine Der Spiegel, poses some rather aggressive questions, infuriating the manage- Angela Merkel, shown ment of the plant, which is still up and running. The here in 1991, served in the East Germany acrimony threatens to derail the fact-finding mis- government before that country ceased to exist. sion, embarrassing Merkel, who only just took office. GETTY VIA IMAGES BAUMGARTEN ULRICH PHOTOGRAPH: 1 brunswick review · issue 21 · 2021 ANGELA MERKEL Merkel takes the reporter to task at breakfast the German pastor took over the thoroughly Catho- remarkable stamina is undiminished. She gets by next morning. Choosing sharp words and speaking lic West German CDU. Merkel has since repeatedly on little sleep. Able to negotiate for nights on end, bluntly, she says she will not stand idly by while he demonstrated her remarkable ability to learn and SHE GETS BY ON she can hold her alcohol better than many. In early ruins her visit. If the grandstanding continues, he adapt. A case in point: The CDU needed a chan- LITTLE SLEEP. 2015, several days of negotiations with Russian pres- will be making his own travel arrangements – and cellor candidate for the 2002 election. Accurately ident Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Porosh- good luck getting back to Germany. Merkel’s entou- assessing her strengths and options, Merkel shrewdly ABLE TO NEGOTI- enko culminated in the Minsk Agreement. The final rage is astonished. How could she berate a reporter eschewed this opportunity, leaving it to the leader of ATE FOR NIGHTS and decisive session took 17 hours. Merkel then flew from a magazine as powerful and influential as Der the CDU’s sister party, the Christian Social Union from Minsk straight to Bavaria to give her account Spiegel? Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who disliked the and stepping aside graciously without rancor or ill ON END, SHE of the negotiations at the Munich Security Confer- media and despised Der Spiegel, never ripped into will. Edmund Stoiber, then the prime minister of CAN HOLD HER ence. She showed no signs of fatigue or weakness. a journalist with the ferocity of this young minister Bavaria, lost the election to Gerhard Schröder by a One could hardly criticize Merkel’s lack of a far- from the east of Germany. whisker. Merkel escaped unscathed. Stoiber retreated ALCOHOL BETTER sighted plan for Germany without conceding that These two incidents show the extent of Angela to Bavaria, a spent political force rendered harmless THAN MANY. the tide of events left scant room for visions. She Merkel’s range. Highly intelligent and analytical, she to her interests. had three crises to contend with – the global finan- does the grunt-work research it takes to speak with Merkel again showed her mettle in 2003. The new cial meltdown that began in late 2007 and was exac- authority. And she is tough and fearless. These quali- platform she presented at the CDU party conven- erbated by the European debt debacle of 2009, the ties also caught the eye of then-chancellor Helmut tion in Leipzig put business first, its agenda market 2015 migrant crisis and most recently, the emerging Kohl in 1990, the year the GDR ceased to exist, when friendly through and through. Much to the aston- pandemic of 2020. Merkel always keeps her cool and he was looking for resilient politicians from East secretary general under chairman Wolfgang Schäu- ishment of many, Merkel persuaded the party to never loses her nerve. Her composure instills confi- Germany. Kohl recruited Merkel for his team after ble, today president of the Bundestag and its longest adopt her platform. It nearly lost her the 2005 elec- dence. People feel safe with their fate in her capable Germany’s reunification, assigning experienced serving member. tion. She was lucky to narrowly oust the SPD’s Ger- hands, hence the nickname Mutti, the mother of staff to advise her. Soon after, in 1991, little-known In fall of 1999, events took a turn that would hard Schröder, but the political price for victory was all misnomers. Angela Merkel is anything but the THIS WAS THE Merkel became deputy chairperson of the Christian reveal much about Merkel’s nature. Allegations sur- a chancellorship in a grand coalition with the SPD. matronly sort. LAST TIME SHE Democratic Union and minister for women and faced that Kohl had for years maintained a secret Merkel’s neoliberal advocacy earned her pointed The Madonna image faded, giving way to the youth, at the time a less important cabinet position, slush fund. These untaxed donations to his party criticism from within the party’s ranks. Those sour Woman of Steel during the refugee crisis. Germans, WOULD LET but still a fine opportunity to learn and practice. were illicit, yet Kohl broke the law again by refus- notes would not be forgotten. This was the last like their neighbors, were hardly jumping for joy IDEOLOGY GET Many in the party dismissed Merkel – “Kohl’s little ing to disclose donors’ names. The “black money” time she would let ideology get in the way of neces- at the prospect of a wave of migrants. Yet Merkel’s girl” – as a featherweight. She registered on no one’s scandal rocked the CDU and sent the “black giant” sity. Her 16 years of government since have been all resolve would not be weakened by popular opin- IN THE WAY OF radar as a heavyweight contender. Ms. Merkel in 1991, – Kohl’s nickname was a nod to the CDU’s politi- about political pragmatism. Her ability to go with Ms. Merkel in 2017 ion. She saw no other option but to open Germany NECESSITY. A group of junior CDU politicians, exclusively top, with German cal color – reeling. The uproar echoed nationwide. the flow has left her open to the accusation that she applauds the winning to the million or so people stuck on southeastern Chancellor Helmut of her fourth term as male and West German of course, had banded Kohl. The bottom As secretary general of the CDU, Angela Merkel kept lacks vision and ideas as to what Germany should chancellor. Former Europe’s roads. together in the 1980s with the long view of reinvigo- photograph was taken her peace, but quietly wrote a letter two days before be all about. Yet this practicality is the very reason U.S. President Obama, A pastor’s daughter, Merkel had interacted with rating the post-Helmut Kohl CDU. Some members in 2000, the year Christmas. What began as a hymn in praise of Kohl she has remained unchallenged over all these years. below, urged her to run disabled persons as a child. Her humanitarian values she became Chair of that year to provide sta- of this self-styled “Andean Pact” – this men’s club the CDU. went on to criticize his behavior and ended with a It has made Angela Merkel Germany’s preeminent bility in the era of Presi- are genuinely Christian, and she remained true to had formed on a jaunt to South America – gained demand for the CDU to part ways with its almighty politician. dent Donald Trump. her beliefs in the refugee crisis. Many people resented influence over the years. Although not immune to patriarch: “The party must learn to walk.” Former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt the one-upmanship that the male political animal Merkel told no one of this letter. Instead, she wryly remarked in the late 1970s that people with so often engages in, they were determined to sup- leaked it to us at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zei- visions ought to see a doctor. The 20th century’s port one another and set the course for the Christian tung. I was the newspaper’s parliamentary corre- dark legacy has left Germans understandably wary Democrats. For these would-be captains, the helm spondent. Merkel knew that my colleague Karl Feld- of political visions. But there is nothing wrong with of the CDU was no place for any woman, let alone a MERKEL TOLD meyer had reasons aplenty to loath Kohl. Feldmeyer Angela Merkel’s eyesight – or foresight. Her powers Lutheran from the East. NO ONE OF and I talked about the letter, acutely aware of what of observation are keen. Merkel paid her respects to Angela Merkel took measure of the situation, impact it would have. He chose to publish the mis- Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey soon after he took biding her time to study these men’s characters and THIS LETTER.
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