Horst Kasner (né Horst Kaźmierczak; born August 6, 1926 in Berlin, died September 2, 2011 in Templin) was a German Protestant theologian and father of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Kasner found a pastor's position with the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg and the family moved to a rectory in the village of Quitzow near Perleberg.
Horst Kasnermarried Herlind Jentzsch, an English and Latin teacher, born on 8 July 1928 in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) as the daughter of Danzig politician Willi Jentzsch, and their daughter Angela was born in 1954. Several weeks after the birth of their daughter, the family moved from Hamburg to East Berlin.
Ludwig Kasner (1896-1959) was a German policeman of Polish ethnicity who worked with the Berlin Police. He was the paternal grandfather of German chancellor Angela Merkel,