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FOR HOLD FILE - In this Tuesday, April 30, 1991 file photo, former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl stands behind this time Women and Youth Minister Angela Merkel prior to a cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Bonn, Germany. Angela Merkel, now Chancellor of Germany, will leave office as one of modern Germany's longest-serving leaders and a global diplomatic heavyweight, with a legacy defined by her management of a succession of crises that shook a fragile Europe rather than any grand visions for her own country.(AP Photo/Fritz Reiss, File)