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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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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.
“The conservative Albrecht stood in reserved rejection as regards the women’s question,” remembered Rolf Zick, his journalistic contemporary. The young mother: Von der Leyen and family. A shock vote, on the back of three defectors from the ruling coalition, in the state assembly made Ernst Albrecht minister-president of Lower Saxony in 1976.
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.
Dec 11, 2020 · Mrs von der Leyen's father Ernst Albrecht was a senior Commission official in Brussels in the 1950s, before entering German domestic politics - he was in the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU ...
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Sep 20, 2023 · Ursula von der Leyen, then Albrecht, was born to German parents in Belgium in 1958. She was the third of seven children. At the age of 13, her family moved to Hanover in Germany, where her father ...
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Sep 9, 2019 · Belgium — Didier Reynders, Justice. Softly spoken lawyer from Belgium’s Francophone liberal party, the Reformist Movement (MR). Served as minister for finance (1999-2011), and for foreign affairs (2011-2019). In 2014 was in the running to become commissioner and prime minister but missed out on both.
