How tall is Angela Merkel?

Angela Merkel's listed height is 165 cm (5'5"). She is taller than about 56% of women in Germany.

Where 165 cm sits among women in Germany

Taller than about 56% of women in Germany born in 1954 (average 164.1 cm).

About Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel is a German stateswoman and retired politician, born Angela Dorothea Kasner on 17 July 1954 in Hamburg, West Germany. Her family moved to East Germany when she was an infant. She obtained a doctorate in quantum chemistry in 1986 and worked as a research scientist until 1989.

Merkel entered politics after the Revolutions of 1989, briefly serving as deputy spokeswoman for the first democratically elected government of East Germany. After German reunification in 1990 she was elected to the Bundestag for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Chancellor Helmut Kohl appointed her Minister for Women and Youth in 1991 and Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in 1994. She became general secretary of the Christian Democratic Union in 1998 and the party's first female leader two years later.

At a listed 165 cm (5'5"), Merkel is married to Joachim Sauer. She served as Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021, the only woman and the only former East German to hold the office, and she led the CDU from 2000 to 2018.

Frequently asked

How tall is Angela Merkel in feet and inches? Angela Merkel is 5'5" tall, which is 165 cm, 65 inches or 1.65 m.

Is Angela Merkel tall for women in Germany? At 165 cm she is taller than about 56% of women in Germany born in 1954, whose average height is 164.1 cm.

Sources

• Angela Merkel on Wikipedia — biography and career.
• Angela Merkel on Wikidata — nationality and dates; height recorded as 165 cm.
• Angela Merkel on TMDB — filmography and co-stars.

Heights are as publicly listed, rounded to the nearest centimetre; listed heights for public figures are often self-reported. Biographical details adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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