# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charlotte-merz
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:45:17.176Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charlotte-merz"
name: "Charlotte Merz"
slug: "charlotte-merz"
description: "Charlotte Merz is a German judge and the director of the Amtsgericht in Arnsberg. She is also the wife of Friedrich Merz, the Chancellor of Germany, whom she met in 1980 and married in 1981. In spite of her husband's chancellery she has maintained her role, saying that she wants to go to work every day entirely normally, and has only made rare public appearances, such as at her husband's election by the Bundestag."
tagline: "German lawyer, wife of Friedrich Merz, mother of Philippe Merz, Constanze Merz, and Carola Clüsener (born Merz)"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1960-12-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.293386666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  48
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 209
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13128780/"
    handle:    "nm13128780"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Merz"
    title: "Charlotte Merz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Merz"
    title: "Charlotte Merz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%86%2C_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B0"
    title: "Мерц, Шарлотта"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132801694"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations