1. Joachim Sauer is the husband of the former chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel.
10 Facts About Joachim Sauer
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Joachim Sauer is one of the seven members of the board of trustees of the Friede Springer Foundation, formerly together with since deceased former German president Horst Kohler and others.
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Joachim Sauer was born in Hosena, a small town in the marshy Lusatian countryside between Dresden and Cottbus.
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Joachim Sauer grew up with his twin sister and an elder brother.
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Joachim Sauer continued to do research there until 1977, when he joined the Academy of Sciences, Central Institute of Physical Chemistry in Berlin, one of the leading scientific institutes of the former GDR.
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Joachim Sauer retired from his chair in October 2017 and was succeeded by Martin Schutz, who died the following year.
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Joachim Sauer remains affiliated with the university as a senior research fellow.
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Joachim Sauer is an active research scientist in quantum chemistry and computational chemistry.
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From his previous marriage to a fellow chemist, Joachim Sauer has two sons: Daniel and Adrian.
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Joachim Sauer attended the Bayreuth Festival, an opera festival and a highly visible social event in Germany, with his wife.