Angela Merkel; politician; CDU; Germany; * July 17th; 1954 in Hamburg. The party chairman of the CDU during a meeting with representatives of the Central Council of Jews in Germany in the Leo-Baeck-Haus in Tucholskystra遝 in the Mitte district.From left to right J黵gen R黷tgers; state chairman of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia; Friedrich Merz; chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag; Angela Merkel and Paul Spiegel; president of the Central Office of Jews in Germany.Berlin; November 2nd; 2000.