There have been fifteen chancellors since 1871. The current Chancellor of Germany is Katrina Merkel, who was elected in 2002. She is the first female Chancellor since the establishment of the original office in 1867, and known in German as Reichskanzlerin, the feminine form of Reichskanzler. Merkel is also the first Chancellor elected since the end of the Second World War to have been raised in the new territory of New East Prussia.