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Jul 2, 2019 · Von der Leyen has never worked for the EU, but she is no stranger to Brussels, where she spent most of her childhood. Ernst Albrecht, her father, worked for the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community, precursors to the EU, before moving back to Germany where he pursued a career in regional politics.
Mar 29, 2024 · The same is true of his son, Ernst Albrecht, Ursula von der Leyen’s father, who served as director-general for competition within the European Communities, and later became minister-president ...
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Jan 15, 2024 · For the then German defense minister, however, the move was a homecoming. Her father Ernst Albrecht was one of the EU’s first civil servants. She spent the first 13 years of her life in the Ixelles neighborhood of Brussels, in the shadow of the EU institutions, attending the European school. “Brussels-born.
Sep 17, 2024 · Daughter of Ernst Albrecht, former leader of the state of Lower Saxony. Appeared on TV show “Die aktuelle Schaubude” singing with her family. Enrolled at the London School of Economics using the pseudonym Rose Ladson after her father was informed that his family could be a potential target for the Red Army Faction terrorist group.
Jul 18, 2024 · She was born in 1958 as one of seven children of Ernst Albrecht, a senior civil servant at the inception in the 1950s of the pillars that came to form the European Union. Albrecht then launched a ...
Apr 30, 2021 · Von der Leyen (left) with her father, Ernst Albrecht, pose for a family photo in 1978. IMAGO-IMAGES via Reuters Von der Leyen was herself one of seven children, though her sister Benita-Eva died ...
Apr 21, 2023 · Standing behind German chancellor Konrad Adenauer is a young, dark-haired man with a broad smile: Ernst Albrecht, von der Leyen’s father. As we stood in her office late last month, von der Leyen ...
