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Horst Kasner was a German Protestant theologian and the father of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He moved to East Germany in 1954 and became a pastor and a director of a pastoral college in Templin.
Horst Kasner war ein deutscher evangelischer Theologe und der Vater der ehemaligen Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel. Er wurde 1926 in Berlin geboren, studierte in Heidelberg und Bethel, übersiedelte 1954 in die DDR und war Pastor in Templin.
Horst Kasner (né Horst Kaźmierczak; born 6 August 1926 in Berlin, died 2 September 2011 in Templin) was the father of Angela Merkel, and was a Protestant theologian.
Sep 15, 2005 · TEMPLIN, Germany - Half a century ago, the Rev. Horst Kasner made an extraordinary decision: He packed up his young family and moved from democratically governed Hamburg, West Germany, to this...
Sep 6, 2005 · TEMPLIN, Germany: — Half a century ago, Pastor Horst Kasner made an extraordinary decision: He packed up his young family and his belongings and took them from the democratically governed, West...
Horst Kasner died in 2011, six years after his daughter became the first German chancellor from the east — and the first woman to hold the office.
Sep 3, 2011 · Chancellor Angela Merkel's father died on Friday at the age of 85, government officials reported. Horst Kasner was a Protestant pastor who moved to East Germany from Hamburg in the 1950s with his...
