Charlotte Merz

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.