Angela Merkel was born in 1954 in Hamburg, the second largest city in Germany. Her father was an official and her mother was a teacher. After her birth, the（her） parents have different decisions upon her father’s employment and the family eventually moved to East German, a country which was under Communism. Grown up in the neighborhood of handicapped people, she learned how to keep a sunny spirit and adapt herself to(the Communist 增加社會主義的，描述人物在特殊歷史背景的成長經(jīng)歷) government systems.
Intelligence, will and power were her weapons and English, German, Russian and Latin made her communication with higher officials of foreign countries easy. In 1986, she earned a doctor degree in physics and participated in the Free German Youth, a party which is a socialist youth movement in Germany and had 75% of the young population of former East Germany. In 1989, The Berlin Wall, a barrier that divided Berlin for nearly 40 years, was knocked down. In 1990s, Merkel came to participate in democratic politics and achieved her extraordinary rise in Germany. Among German leaders, she was a anomaly who combined self-criticism ,self-loathing with scientific spirit.
