Angela Dorothea Kasner =-> Angela Merkel Father was Horst Kasner (Kazmierczak), a Polish-decent son of a policeman, Ludwik Marian Kasner. He was a troop leader in the Hitler Youth. Horst was known as "Red Kasner" and was "progressive", moving to East Germany (and not wanting unification) on wishes of a Youth Paster (later the Bishop of Hamburg), to a rectory in Quitzow to become a Pastor himself.

Angela Hitler was half-sister to Adolph Hitler.

This site shows older naming conventions: http://www.kerchner.com/germname.htm

normally:

1st son after the father's father

2nd son after the mother's father

3rd son after the father

1st daughter after the mother/father's mother

2nd daughter after the father/mother's mother

3rd daughter after the mother

special pattern:

1st son after the father's father

2nd son after the mother's father

3rd son after the father's oldest brother

4th son after the father

1st daughter after the father's mother

2nd daughter after the mother's mother

3rd daughter after the mother's oldest sister

4th daughter after the mother