the life of a person- Angela Merkel
The German president was born in Hamburg, west Germany in 1954. Her father was an official in the Lutheran Church to take up the ecclesiastical duties in the G.D.R.( Eastern Germany) while her mother was an English teacher. When she was young, she lived in Waldhof, a complex buildings belong to the Lutheran Church with physically and mentally disabled people. So she had the chance to study and see how bottom people live in poverty and grim place, thought her family is elite.
Unlike other girls, Merkel was never "bitchy" and "flirtatious". She does not care what she wear and how she looks gorgeous, a physically clumsy girl. But it does not mean she is no careerist. In early years, she attended the Free German Youth, the blue-shirted " fighting reverse" of the ruling party. Merkel once admitted her participation was 70% opportunism. Merkel studied graduate studies of Quantum chemistry and physics for largely she was never afoul of the ruling party at that time. However, according to her school mate, Merkel can speak Russia and loves culture of Soviet Union.
This women is a triple anomaly, just opposite to the tradition woman, divorced, remarried, no children, being a scientist and an Ossi. Obviously, she is intelligent, resilient and flexible. Other politician will pay a high price for underestimating her.