It's not unusual for celebrities to change their names for their careers. Or do you think Adam Richard Wiles would have become as famous as Calvin Harris? Probably not! But not only musicians and actors like to work on their name, even the look in the passport of our Chancellor might surprise you.

Because in all the years in which the 62-year-old is already the head of the German government, she harshly concealed our second name. In truth, it is called: Angela Dorothea Merkel!

And Merkel is not even her maiden name. The native of Hamburg was born with the surname Kasner. In 1977, however, Angela married the physicist Ulrich Merkel, whose last name she retained after the divorce in 1982 and her second marriage to Joachim Sauer in 1998.

Well, then we know now!

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