How tall is Friedrich Merz? Height of Friedrich Merz

How tall is Friedrich Merz?
Friedrich Merz's Height is 6ft 6in (197 cm)

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Celebirty name: MERZ, Friedrich (Original: Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz)
Birth: 1955-11-11 (Germany) (age 69)
Occupation: statesman, politican

Source: WIKIPEDIA.ORG

Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz (born 11 November 1955) is a German politician serving as Chancellor of Germany since 2025. He has also served as Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since January 2022, leading the CDU/CSU (Union) parliamentary group as Leader of the Opposition in the Bundestag from February 2022 to May 2025. Merz was born in Brilon in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in West Germany. He joined the Young Union in 1972. After finishing law school in 1985, Merz worked as a judge and corporate lawyer before entering full-time politics in 1989 when he was elected to the European Parliament. After serving one term he was elected to the Bundestag, where he established himself as the leading financial policy expert in the CDU. In 2000 he was elected chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the same year as Angela Merkel was elected chairwoman of the CDU, and at the time they were chief rivals for the leadership of the party, which led the opposition together with CSU. After the 2002 federal election, CDU party leader Angela Merkel claimed the parliamentary group chairmanship for herself, while Merz was elected deputy parliamentary group leader. In December 2004, he resigned from this office, thereby giving up the years-long power struggle with Merkel and gradually withdrew from politics, focusing on his legal career and leaving parliament entirely in 2009, until his return to parliament in 2021. In 2004 he became a senior counsel with Mayer Brown, where he has focused on mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, and compliance. He has served on the boards of numerous companies, including BlackRock Germany. A corporate lawyer and reputed multimillionaire, Merz is also a licensed private pilot and owns two aeroplanes. In 2018, he announced his return to politics. He was elected CDU leader in December 2021, assuming the office in January 2022. He had failed to win the position in two previous leadership elections in 2018, and January 2021. In September 2024, he became the Union's candidate for Chancellor of Germany ahead of the 2025 federal election. The CDU/CSU subsequently reached an agreement to form a coalition with the SPD. Merz was elected chancellor on 6 May 2025, in a second round of voting, after unexpectedly failing to garner the required absolute majority of parliamentary votes in a first round of voting – a first in German history for a chancellor candidate. As a young politician in the 1970s and 1980s, Merz was a staunch supporter of anti-communism, the dominant political doctrine of West Germany and a core tenet of the CDU. He is seen as a representative of the traditional establishment conservative and pro-business wings of the CDU. His book Mehr Kapitalismus wagen (Venturing More Capitalism) advocates economic liberalism. Prior to the second presidency of Donald Trump, he was frequently described as being "exceptionally pro-American", and was once the chairman of the Atlantik-Brücke association which promotes German-American friendship and Atlanticism. He is a staunch supporter of the European Union, NATO, and the liberal international order, having described himself as "a truly convinced European, a convinced Transatlanticist, and a German open to the world". Merz advocates a closer union and "an army for Europe". He is critical of the Trump administration, having likened the United States under Donald Trump to Russia under Vladimir Putin, criticized American and Russian election interference, and said Europe must urgently strengthen its defences and potentially find a replacement for NATO to achieve "independence" from the United States. Merz is married to judge Charlotte Merz. He has three children and resides in Arnsberg in the Sauerland region. He is thus the first chancellor in 27 years (since Helmut Kohl) to have biological children (although Gerhard Schröder adopted a daughter from Russia in July 2004). Their son, born in 1981, holds a doctorate in philosophy, their elder daughter is a doctor, and their younger daughter is a lawyer. Merz has seven grandchildren. In 2005, Merz and his wife established the Friedrich und Charlotte Merz Stiftung, a foundation supporting projects in the education sector. In addition to his native language Merz also speaks English and French. In 2018, Merz rejected the Ludwig Erhard Prize, citing objections to publications by the chairman of the Ludwig Erhard Foundation, Roland Tichy, considered by some to be on the extreme right.

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