6 ft 6 in (198 cm)
A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
How tall is Friedrich Merz?
Friedrich Merz is commonly listed at 6 ft 6 in (198 cm).
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Friedrich Merz’s 6 ft 6 in (198 cm) is very tall for a US man: more than 95 in 100 US men are shorter.
Where your height fallsEveryone about 6 ft 6 in
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Friedrich Merz beside others
Friedrich Merz is one of the taller politicians we have heights for: John Fetterman (6 ft 8 in) stands 2 in (5.2 cm) taller and Benito Juárez (4 ft 6 in) is 2 ft 0 in (61 cm) shorter.
Also listed at 6 ft 6 in: Fred Thompson.
- Aleksandar Vučić: 6 ft 6.5 in (199 cm), 0.4 in (1 cm) taller than Friedrich Merz.
- Charles de Gaulle: 6 ft 5 in (196 cm), 1 in (2 cm) shorter than Friedrich Merz.
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Where this height comes from
Photo: Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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