Angela Merkel receives Germany's highest Order of Merit

Angela Merkel receives Germany's highest Order of Merit

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Category : Awards Published on: April 22 2023

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  • Former Chancellor Angela Merkel received Germany's highest Order of Merit.
  • The Grand Cross award was handed to her by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
  • The award has only been given twice before, to former chancellors Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl. 
  • All three former leaders belong to the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
  • The Order of Merit entails no financial reward.
  • Merkel led Germany from 2005 to 2021, totaling four terms in office.
  • She was the first woman to take the post of chancellor and the first German head of government to have grown up in socialist East Germany.
  • Steinmeier, who is a member of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD), served as Foreign Minister under Merkel between 2013 and 2017, and as vice chancellor between 2007 and 2009.
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