Ursula von der Leyen | |
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President of the European Commission | |
Assumed office 1 December 2019 | |
First Vice-President | Frans Timmermans Maroš Šefčovič |
Preceded by | Jean-Claude Juncker |
Minister of Defence | |
In office 17 December 2013 – 17 July 2019 | |
Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
Preceded by | Thomas de Maizière |
Succeeded by | Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer |
Deputy Leader of the Christian Democratic Union | |
In office 15 November 2010 – 22 November 2019 Serving with Volker Bouffier, Julia Klöckner, Armin Laschet and Thomas Strobl | |
Leader | Angela Merkel Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer |
Preceded by | Christian Wulff |
Succeeded by | Silvia Breher |
Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs | |
In office 30 November 2009 – 17 December 2013 | |
Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
Preceded by | Franz Josef Jung |
Succeeded by | Andrea Nahles |
Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth | |
In office 22 November 2005 – 30 November 2009 | |
Chancellor | Angela Merkel |
Preceded by | Renate Schmidt |
Succeeded by | Kristina Schröder |
Lower Saxony State Minister for Social Affairs, Women, Family and Health | |
In office 4 March 2003 – 22 November 2005 | |
Minister President | Christian Wulff |
Preceded by | Gitta Trauernicht |
Succeeded by | Mechthild Ross-Luttmann |
Member of the Bundestag for Lower Saxony | |
In office 27 September 2009 – 31 July 2019 | |
Constituency | State Wide Party List |
Personal details | |
Born | Ursula Gertrud Albrecht 8 October 1958 Ixelles, Belgium |
Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
Spouse(s) | Heiko von der Leyen |
Children | 7 |
Father | Ernst Albrecht |
Alma mater | University of Göttingen University of Münster London School of Economics Hannover Medical School |
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Website | Official website |
Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (listen (help·info); née Albrecht, 8 October 1958) is a German politician. She is the President of the European Commission.
She had served as Minister of Defence of Germany from 2013 to 2019. She is a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Von der Leyen is the only minister to have been in Angela Merkel's cabinet since she took office in 2005, first as Minister of Family Affairs and Youth from 2005 to 2009, then as Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from 2009 to 2013, before becoming Minister of Defence in 2013.[1]
German politician Ernst Albrecht was her father.
On 2 July 2019, von der Leyen was nominated by the European Council to the position of President of the European Commission.[2][3] With a close majority, she was elected by the European Parliament on 16 July.[4] She is the first woman to hold the office[5] and the first German since the commission's first president, Walter Hallstein.[6]
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