Merkel: 'My name is Kasner'

berlin - Angela Merkel (62) is called apparently no longer Angela Merkel. She adopted her maiden name again.

' My name is Angela Dorothea Kassner, 'the Chancellor said this morning as witnesses before the parliamentary inquiry. That is investigating the massive American NSA spy on her cell phone, plus German and European governments, ministers and embassies, businesses and citizens.

The CDU chairman was born in 1954 as Angela Kasner, named after her father, the East German pastor Horst Kasner. In the GDR, she married Ulrich Merkel, whose name she took, and she kept, even after her divorce.

She remarried, and lived for a long time chemist Joachim Sauer together. Now appears in her own words, she adopted her maiden name Kasner again. It is still uncertain whether they are for convenience yet lets speak with Merkel.