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German Chancellor Angela Merkel greets her supporters outside a studio ahead of the TV debate in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 1, 2013. Zhang Fan / Chine Nouvelle / Sipa by [Catherine Mayer](https://time.com/author/catherine-mayer/) Sep 23, 2013 4:00 AM UTC Angela Merkel has a face she makes when things don’t go according to plan. She has arrived in Recklinghausen, a city in Germany’s industrial Ruhr district, to deliver a stump speech at a rally of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party ahead of elections on Sept. 22\. As protesters whistle and heckle, she narrows her eyes and stares into the distance. This isn’t an angry expression. Merkel is doggedness personified. Germany’s first female Chancellor and the first raised behind the Iron Curtain has already gone down in history as a trailblazer. Now, after nearly eight years in charge of Europe’s richest nation, with her policies affecting the entire euro zone and rippling outward around the globe, she is pushing for a third four-year term. She may succeed. That alone makes her remarkable. The euro-zone crisis has derailed or damaged most leaders in its vortex. Merkel has thrived. A poll published on Aug. 23, the day of the rally, reveals that 63% of voters favor her return to office. Her nearest rival, Peer Steinbrück of the Social Democrats (SPD), lags at 29%. The CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, enjoy an advantage of around 15 percentage points. But the quirks of the German electoral system, designed amid the rubble of Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship to dissipate rather than concentrate power, mean Merkel has a real battle on her hands. And so she fights, rally by rally, town by town. Ralf Möller greets her at the Recklinghausen podium. The 6-ft. 5-in. former champion bodybuilder and Gladiator actor (he played a Germanic barbarian in the Oscar-winning epic) has flown from Los Angeles to his hometown to lend his considerable muscle to Merkel’s cause. “This is what I admire,” he says, watching his petite heroine plow on with her speech. “She overcomes.” Nothing showcases the steady, fuss-free Merkel brand better than adversity–and this campaign season is serving up plenty. Greece is ripe for another bailout. The Syrian crisis has raised uncomfortable questions about Germany’s willingness to match its economic heft to its responsibilities as a global citizen. And allegations about the U.S. National Security Agency’s scooping up of German data are roiling public opinion. Protesters at the rally blow whistles and brandish a banner emblazoned with NIE WIEDER ÜBERWACHUNGSSTAAT–never again a surveillance state. None of the protesters appear much older than 30; for younger Germans, any debate about freedom–and its curtailment–is primarily intellectual. For Merkel, who spent the first 36 of her 59 years navigating a society that embroiled hundreds of thousands of her compatriots in spying on the others, there is no such abstraction. Communist East Germany (GDR) shaped the reflexes of caution and concealment that originally helped Merkel swerve and maneuver her way to high office and put the iron in her soul that keeps her fighting to stay there. The German economy is giving her a helping hand. The latest data show a narrow budget surplus, moderate growth and unemployment at 6.8%, close to its lowest ebb in two decades. To enjoy similar prosperity–and in return for German largesse–the weaker euro-zone nations must reform. That is Merkel’s mantra. “Solidarity makes sense if we all work to become better, fitter,” she tells the Recklinghausen crowds. “Otherwise we’ll become weaker together.” Her critics say that is happening already on Merkel’s watch. Greece isn’t the only country that has been slow to make structural reforms. Merkel has governed in what she calls “small steps,” avoiding the sort of big, transformative initiatives that might, for example, bolster Germany against challenges like its rapidly aging population. Merkel’s opponents hope her record of incrementalism will lose her the election. She seeks to counter their attacks with something rarely seen in postwar Germany–a campaign based on personality. That’s startling because Merkel, under close scrutiny since she took the CDU’s helm in 2000, remains an enigma. More than any other Chancellor of modern times, Merkel is Germany, personifying the nation’s seemingly contradictory impulses–to be a world power and, at the same time, keep a low profile. A Star in the East Templin sits encircled by Medieval city walls and bounded by something less tangible: a sense of small-town reserve. Curtains twitch. Strangers are immediately conspicuous. The focus on the Kasner family when they settled in this corner of East Germany with their baby daughter in 1954 was intense. They were anomalies: Westerners choosing to live in the East. Not only that, but Horst Kasner was a Protestant pastor who saw it as his mission to work in the GDR and so lived under constant suspicion of sedition. His daughter Angela learned to blend in to the point of near invisibility. In school, apart from one pivotal, traumatic moment, she stood out only for her scholarship. She took gold at a regional mathematics Olympiad, an annual competition pitting schoolkids against one another in academic subjects. She also twice won the top prize for Russian at the Olympiad. Erika Benn, the teacher who coached her to victory, says her star pupil easily mastered the language but struggled to acquire the interpersonal skills to sell a Russian poem. “She wouldn’t even look up,” says Benn. “I said to her, ‘Can’t you smile a bit?'” It may seem counterintuitive that a girl without natural social skills should grow up to beguile so many, but you only have to see Merkel’s fans gathered in Recklinghausen to appreciate the affection she inspires. “I find her wonderful, not just as a politician but a strong woman,” says Jil Schulden, 19, a recent high school graduate. Such sentiments are commonplace in Germany and across a wide demographic. There are criticisms, certainly. She’s acquired several nicknames: “Merkiavelli” and “the Black Widow,” for her ability to sidle up unnoticed before delivering a deadly bite. To her supporters, she’s Angie. But everyone in Germany knows her as “Mutti,” mommy. For many Germans, it’s an endearment and a reflection of their lingering surprise that they put Merkel in charge in the first place. When she ran for the chancellorship in 2005, “the main question in the campaign was ‘Kann die das?’ Is she able to do this? With a negative touch. Nobody is asking that anymore,” says Ursula von der Leyen, who has served as a minister in both Merkel governments. If Merkel is a unifier more than a polarizer, that may be because her life intertwines the strands of a country that was formed as recently as 1871, torn by two world wars and stitched back together less than 23 years ago. At 18, Merkel nearly became a victim of that political turbulence. At the end of each school term, GDR pupils performed cultural programs. In a “snap decision” that Carola Moock, her contemporary at school and now a pediatrician, says arose from boredom rather than a desire to shock, Merkel’s class opted to sing “The Internationale,” the hymn of the workers’ struggle, not in German or Russian but English. The pupils compounded this sign of nascent dissidence by reading a poem containing the phrase “the wall.” It wasn’t in reference to the fortifications that at the time divided Germany, but it was still enough to trigger a weeklong interrogation of the whole class by the Stasi, the feared secret police. The authorities initially withdrew Merkel’s permission to take a degree in physical chemistry. Her father had to work every possible contact to enable his daughter to study. Slow and Steady Merkel prefers to avoid speedy decisions, and not just because of her formative tangle with the Stasi. She remains haunted by the Deauville debacle. At a summit at the French seaside resort in 2010, she and France’s then President Nicolas Sarkozy made a pact to make investors holding bonds in any country requesting a bailout accept a share of the losses. This was meant to mitigate the burden on the taxpayers funding the bailouts–top of the list, Germans–but instead raised the specter that euro-zone countries might default. The euro plunged into a new spiral of pain. Deauville marked a rare deviation from the usual Merkel style of decision making. “She goes at it like a physicist,” says Dirk Kurbjuweit, a journalist with the weekly Der Spiegel and the author of a Merkel biography. “She wants to solve problems. The bigger the problem, the bigger the chance of a Nobel Prize.” The biggest problem on Merkel’s plate is Europe’s debt crisis. Amid signs of a recovery in some hard-hit European countries, Merkel continues to resist pressure to mutualize euro-zone debt to reduce borrowing costs for weaker countries and stands by the doctrine of austerity that has seen unemployment spiraling upward in those same countries. “She \[has driven\] Europe into greater divisions and damaged the European project,” says Andrea Nahles, the general secretary of the SPD. But by waiting until the abyss yawns before taking action, Merkel has succeeded in carrying most of Germany with her when she makes a move. The European policies of the mainstream parties are closely aligned. In Parliament and among voters, there is broad recognition that Germany’s export-driven economy is dependent on the survival of the euro zone–never mind that German liabilities to the bailout mechanisms have the country on the hook for as much as $280 billion if the single currency implodes. Any German government will inch toward greater European integration to prevent the disintegration of the euro. And any German government will also find it hard to speed the process or take any significant steps toward surrendering sovereign powers to the E.U. That’s because the German political system already spreads those powers thinly between state and national government and parties. The SPD is campaigning for a coalition with the Greens; Merkel aims to continue her cúrrent liaison with the Free Democrats. Polls point to a grand coalition of Merkel’s CDU/CSU with the SPD, the same constellation she led successfully during her first term as Chancellor, but any final constellation will almost certainly be decided not just by voters but also in detailed coalition negotiations after the elections. Putting Trust in Mutti In the final months of East Germany, Lothar de Maizière, who served as the only elected leader of the GDR before its absorption into reunited Germany, appointed Merkel his deputy spokeswoman. She shone. “Her briefings were half as long \[as her colleagues’\] but twice as information-rich,” says her former boss. He did ask his office manager to have a quiet word with Merkel on the eve of a diplomatic trip to Russia. “Please tell her to lose the Jesus sandals and buy some clothes better suited to public office,” he begged. Merkel turned up to work the next day in a new outfit but blushed when de Maizière complimented her on it. Merkel’s stolidity is now being showcased as an asset in a campaign devised by the Berlin-based agency Blumberry. The campaign’s must-have collectible is a booklet of photos of the Chancellor, including a few private shots from family albums, garnished with modest biographical details. Here is Merkel with her husband, distinguished scientist Joachim Sauer, who is even more publicity-averse than his wife. And here’s a much younger Angela pushing a doll in a buggy, playing mother, as the childless politician now plays mother to her entire country. Ordinary citizens feel safer in Mutti’s care. The election could be seen as a rite of passage, giving voters a choice between the comforts of the government they know or striking out into the unknown. The SPD’s Nahles hopes to convince them that they need to cut loose from the apron strings in order to preserve their comforts. “This government will go into the German history books as the one that has made the fewest laws,” she says. “Staying still for a country means, in the end, going backward.” Merkel agrees. In Recklinghausen, she speaks of the need to modernize Germany’s economy to meet the trials of globalization. But she also repeats her campaign slogan “erfolgreich zusammen”–successful together. Her message is that Germany is already on the right path. Small steps, not big ideas, are the way forward. “She’s so admired because the way she does things is close to the German soul,” says a campaign insider. Win or lose, Merkel represents contemporary Germany in all its complexity, a huge country that prefers to behave like a small one. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6644056/in-crisis-angela-merkel-fights-to-lead-germany/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6644056/in-crisis-angela-merkel-fights-to-lead-germany/"},"headline":"In Crisis, Angela Merkel Fights To Lead Germany","datePublished":"2013-09-23T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T16:37:01.753Z","description":"She steered the country past Europe's economic crisis. 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