Time's Person of the Year: Merkelvellian

The Chancellor of Germany, given the importance of the country, is always influential, but each century there's at least one Chancellor who changes the course of history.

19th Century - Otto von Bismarck

20th Century - You Know Who

21st Century - Angela Merkel, Time's Person of the Year. [bold added]

Her political style was not to have one; no flair, no flourishes, no charisma, just a survivor’s sharp sense of power and a scientist’s devotion to data. Even after Merkel became Germany’s Chancellor in 2005, and then commanded the world’s fourth largest economy, she remained resolutely dull—the better to be underestimated time and again. German pundits called her Merkelvellian when she outsmarted, isolated or just outlasted anyone who might mount a challenge to her.