“The UK is a tiny, tiny vaccine producer and will always be that. [87], In 2015, von der Leyen publicly criticized Airbus over delays in the delivery of A400M military transport planes, complaining that the company had a serious problem with product quality. [179] In December 2020, von der Leyen was awarded the Global Citizen Prize for World Leader. "[173] She has described Brexit as "a burst bubble of hollow promises. On the 60th anniversary of the founding of Israel, von der Leyen participated in the first joint cabinet meeting of the governments of Germany and Israel in Jerusalem in March 2008. ", https://www.elmundo.es/loc/celebrities/2019/07/04/5d1cce99fdddffcc138b457e.html, "Reit-EM: Von der Leyen macht im Sattel eine gute Figur", "LSE alumna Ursula von der Leyen elected EU Commission head", "Ursula von der Leyen, nominee for EU top job, lived in London under alias to escape Baader-Meinhof gang", "'Heir to Angela Merkel' appointed Germany's first female defence minister", https://www.zeit.de/2016/26/ursula-von-der-leyen-brexit-london, "Who is Germany's Ursula von der Leyen, the surprise candidate set to take the EU's top job? Es gibt die Straße „Am Brink“, die im Ortskern einmal den Spie... Beinhorn: Hier lebt Ursula von der Leyen. As an economics student at the London School of Economics in the late 1970s, she lived under the name Rose Ladson, the family name of her American great-grandmother from Charleston, South Carolina. In Berlin gehört die Familienministerin zu den unbestrittenen Stars im Kabinett von Kanzlerin Angela Merkel. She was a member of the committee on social policy of CDU in Lower Saxony from 1996, and also became active in the association of medical doctors in the CDU party. The Albrecht family was among the hübsche ("courtly" or "genteel") families of the Electorate and Kingdom of Hanover—a state that was in a personal union with the United Kingdom—and her ancestors had been doctors, jurists and civil servants since the 17th century. "[24] She returned to Germany in 1979 but lived with a security detail at her side for several years. [112] In light of her new role, von der Leyen resigned her seat in the German Bundestag on 31 July 2019. "[72], After Hungary used a water cannon and tear gas to drive asylum seekers back from the Hungarian-Serbian border in September 2015, during the European migrant crisis, von der Leyen publicly criticized the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and called the measures "not acceptable and [...] against the European rules that we have. Germany sees Ukraine and Russia as a chance to prove that in the 21st century, developed nations should solve disputes at the negotiating table, not with weapons, she said. [61] She has faced domestic criticism for her leadership style, reliance on outside consultants, and continued gaps in military readiness. She said that she "lived more than she studied,"[28] and that London was "the epitome of modernity: freedom, the joy of life, trying everything" which "gave me an inner freedom that I have kept until today. [59] She is the only minister to remain with Merkel since she became chancellor in 2005. Ursula von der Leyen wurde am 08.10.1958 in Brüssel als Tochter des CDU-Politikers Ernst Albrecht und seiner Frau Heidi Adelegeboren. Doch ihre Wurzeln liegen in dem 137 Einwohner-Örtchen Beinhorn in der Nähe von Burgdorf. [36] Critics questioned the independence of the commission that reviewed the thesis as von der Leyen personally knew its director from joint work for an alumni association. [20] She lives with her family on a farm near Hanover where they keep horses. [149] However, child pornography is, in fact, illegal in India, which has much stricter rules about erotic media than Germany. [64] In September 2015, she signalled that she was open to delaying the withdrawal of 850 German soldiers from Afghanistan beyond 2016 after the Taliban's surprise seizure of the northern city of Kunduz. Its president is Ursula von der Leyen, who presides over a commission composed of one commissioner from each of the states composing the European Union, except Germany, which is von der Leyen's member state. Schon in jungen Jahren lernte Ursula, genannt „Röschen“, daher den politischen Alltag kennen. [12][13][14] The Ladson family were large plantation owners and her ancestor James H. Ladson owned over 200 slaves by the time slavery in the United States was abolished; her relatives and ancestors were among the wealthiest in British North America in the 18th century, and she descends from one of the largest British slave traders of the era, Joseph Wragg. Footage showed Von der Leyen gesture in … But, Mamer added, “even though she was surprised, she preferred — and I’m sure that was the right way to approach this — to give the priority to the substance of the questions over protocol or form.” [169], With 2014 marking the centenary of the start of World War I, von der Leyen – in her capacity as defence minister – inaugurated a memorial for the Armistice Day in Ablain-Saint-Nazaire alongside French President François Hollande and North Rhine-Westphalia State Premier Hannelore Kraft, as well as British and Belgian officials. She also stated that the EU should extend the Brexit deadline beyond 31 October 2019. Von der Leyen, he suggests, may have been guilty of letting Boris Johnson get under her skin. In 2016, she asked for an additional 12.7 million euros in damages for delays in the delivery of a fourth plane. [65] She later opposed the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. [37][38][39], Ursula von der Leyen joined the CDU in 1990, and became active in local politics in Lower Saxony in 1996, shortly after she had returned to Germany after living in California. 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Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen (German: [ˈʊʁzula fɔn dəɐ̯ ˈlaɪən] (listen); née Albrecht; born 8 October 1958) is a German politician and physician who has been President of the European Commission since 1 December 2019. [164] The German embassy in Warsaw and spokesman for the German defence ministry in Berlin issued conciliatory statements. At the height of the fear of communist terrorism in West Germany, she fled to London in 1978 after her family was told that the Red Army Faction (RAF) was planning to kidnap her due to her being the daughter of a prominent politician. [110], When she lived in Brussels, her little sister Benita-Eva died of cancer at the age of eleven and she remembered "the enormous helplessness of my parents" in view of the cancer, which she cited as one of her reasons in 2019 that her EU Commission "to take the lead in the fight against cancer".[111]. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said drugmaker AstraZeneca could face a ban on exports of coronavirus vaccine doses it produces in the EU if it did not meet its delivery obligations. [165] The German media mostly ignored the incident; some acknowledged a "minor slip of the tongue"[166] on the part of von der Leyen, yet also noted that German-Polish relations were "severely damaged". Antoni Macierewicz domaga się "złożenia wyjaśnień”, Skandaliczna wypowiedź niemieckiej minister obrony. [36][37], The university decided not to revoke von der Leyen's medical degree. [37] Various media outlets also criticized that the decision was nontransparent, not according to established rules and failing to secure high academic standards. Wohnort: In the eastern part of North Rhine-Westphalia Lieblingsverein: Schalke (aber nicht das heutige!) Hier verbrachte sie bereits ihre ersten 13 Lebensjahre. Dass Politiker Flüchtlinge bei sich aufnehmen, ist in der Tat selten. She was initially seen as a possible successor to German chancellor Angela Merkel. [10] In 1980 he ran for the CDU nomination for the German chancellorship, backed by CDU chairman Helmut Kohl, but narrowly missed the candidacy to fellow conservative Franz Josef Strauß (who then lost the general election to the sitting chancellor Helmut Schmidt); in the 1990 state elections Ernst Albrecht lost his office to Gerhard Schröder, who later became German chancellor. [68][69][70], At the Munich Security Conference in 2015, von der Leyen publicly defended the German refusal to supply Ukraine with weapons. Von der Leyen was in Ankara with European Council President Charles Michel, to speak to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. 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Most of her ancestors were from the former states of Hanover and Bremen in today's northwestern Germany; she has one American great-grandmother of primarily British descent, with more distant French and Italian ancestors, and some ancestors from what are now the Baltic states, then in Imperial Russia. 2. [41], In 2003, von der Leyen was part of a group assigned by then-opposition leader and CDU chairwoman Angela Merkel to draft alternative proposals for social welfare reform in response to Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's "Agenda 2010". That same month, she participated in the first joint cabinet meeting of the governments of Germany and Turkey in Berlin. Ab sofort arbeitet Ursula von der Leyen in Brüssel, dem Zentrum Europas. This decision broke a longstanding taboo on Germany's dispatching of weapons to a conflict zone. Niels von der Leyen Piano solo - Niels von der Leyen - Pianist [180], Minister of Family Affairs and Youth, 2005–2009, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, 2009–2013, The process for electing the president of the European Commission is described in Article 17(7) of the. During the investigation, two of van der Leyen's phones were confiscated, but data from both phones has been deleted before being returned to the defense ministry [3]. Das Verwaltungsgericht Köln hat sich mit Beschluss vom 23.07.2013 – Az: 19 L 877/13 – als eines der ersten Gerichte aus der Deckung gewagt und dezidiert Stellung bezogen zur Frage, wie weit eine Kindertagesstätte (Kita) von der Wohnung entfernt sein darf. Stefan Wagstyl (6 October 2014), "Ursula von der Leyen vows to tackle Germany military budget". Waszczykowski łagodnie, Macierewicz ostrzej... Skandaliczna wypowiedź niemieckiej minister. Ursula von der Leyen was born in Brussels in 1958, and attended the European School - a multilingual elite school for the children of diplomats and EU bureaucrats. In the family, she has been known since childhood as Röschen, a diminutive of Rose. Nun wird Ursula von der Leyen entgegen des demokratischen Auswahlprozesses einen der wichtigsten Posten in der europäischen Union besetzen. [157] German opposition parties criticized Germany's defence plan with Saudi Arabia, which has been waging war in Yemen and was condemned for massive human rights violations. Was es noch über die zierliche CDU-Politikerin zu wissen gibt, über ihr Vermögen, ihre Ausbildung und Familie, erfahren Sie in diesem Artikel. Meanwhile, Bavarian colleagues from von der Leyen's sister party, the CSU, complained that men did not need a "diaper-changing internship". [172], Following the 2016 European Union membership referendum in the United Kingdom, she argued that the UK had "paralysed" European efforts to integrate security policy and "consistently blocked everything with the label 'Europe' on it. [31], From 1998 to 2002, she taught at the Department of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health System Research at the Hannover Medical School. [18] The Von der Leyen family are Lutheran members of the Evangelical Church of Germany. Von der Leyen als Nato-Generalsekretärin im Gespräch, "Verteidigungsministerin Ursula von der Leyen als Nato-Generalsekretärin im Gespräch", "EU Leaders Tap Germany's Von Der Leyen as Commission Chief", "EU-Kommission: Von der Leyen sagt Krebs den Kampf an", "Commission prepares for von der Leyen transition", "Deutscher Bundestag – Ausgeschiedene Abgeordnete der 19. [115] The fear is that the deal could lead to more deforestation of the Amazon rainforest as it expands market access to Brazilian beef. [2][3] She was then elected by the European Parliament on 16 July;[4][nb 1] she took office on 1 December, becoming the first woman in such role. She later expressed regret for having cited an inaccurate study. Waszczykowski: Pomruki pruskiego tonu w tonacji "Ody do radości", Attache obrony Niemiec wezwany do MON. ", "Verteidigungsministerin: Plagiatsjäger nehmen sich von der Leyens Doktorarbeit vor", "German Defense Minister Von der Leyen denies plagiarism | DW", "Ursula von der Leyen: Kritiker bewerten Arbeit als "eindeutiges Plagiat, "Plagiatsaffäre: Von der Leyen darf Doktortitel behalten", "Trotz Plagiaten: Darum darf von der Leyen ihren Doktor behalten", "Von der Leyen und Plagiat: Doktorspiele", "Ursula von der Leyen darf Doktortitel behalten", Who is EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen, "Who is new EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen? Ich sachätze mal, das über 50 bist und einsam, und deshalb, deine eigene Realität bastelst. She was a member of the committee on social policy of CDU in Lower Saxony from 1996, and also became active in the association of medical doctors in the CDU party. [30] From 1988 to 1992, she worked as an assistant physician at the Women's Clinic of the Hannover Medical School. In 2001 she earned a Master of Public Health degree at the institution. Von der Leyen. Bei zahlreichen Presse- und Fototerminen lernte Ursul… Anfangs war es Heiko von der Leyen, der die Familie ernährt und kaum gesehen hat. [175] In November 2019, at Paris Peace Forum, von der Leyen said that there is need for stable and responsible leadership in Europe and that the bloc must increase foreign policy budget spending by one-third. "[160], In 2017 von der Leyen noted that "healthy democratic resistance of the younger generation" in Poland must be supported. [134] She is, or has been, also a member of several boards of trustees: Ursula von der Leyen assumed her office as Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in 2005. [7] Her father Ernst Albrecht worked as one of the first European civil servants from the establishment of the European Commission in 1958, first as chef de cabinet to the European commissioner for competition Hans von der Groeben in the Hallstein Commission, and then as director-general of the Directorate-General for Competition from 1967 to 1970. She also noted that Russia has an almost infinite supply of weapons it could send into Ukraine. Verein: SC Paderborn. [155] She also called for more significant NATO backing of the Baltic states amid the Crimean dispute. [66], Following criticism from German officials of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's escalation of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict in August 2015, von der Leyen decided to let Germany's three-year Patriot missile batteries mission to southern Turkey lapse in January 2016 instead of seeking parliamentary approval to extend it. Von der Leyen is a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its EU counterpart, the European People's Party (EPP). "[129] Von der Leyen condemned the U.S. decision to restrict travel from the coronavirus-affected Europe to the United States. [23][24][25][26] A German diminutive of Rose, Röschen, had been her nickname since childhood,[27] while Ladson was the name of her American great-grandmother's family, originally from Northamptonshire. Her great-great-grandfather George Alexander Albrecht moved to Bremen in the 19th century, where he became a wealthy cotton merchant, part of the Hanseatic elite and the Austro-Hungarian Consul from 1895. [146], In July 2009, she referred to the problems of struggling against paedophile pornography on the internet as the responsible persons often use servers located in Africa or India, where, she said, "child pornography is legal". She also said that she was convinced about the goal of a combined military force, just as she was convinced that "perhaps not my children, but then my grandchildren will experience a United States of Europe". Mrs von der Leyen said the two sides were still "far apart", while Downing Street said "very large gaps remain". Will India Purchase German Stealth Submarines? An article in The Guardian says that the reason for Germany's refusal to vote for her is that von der Leyen is divisive. "Weapons deliveries would be a fire accelerant," von der Leyen was quoted as telling the Süddeutsche Zeitung daily. Die NP hat sich dort umgehört und die Beinhorner nach ihrer Meinung zur prominenten Nachbarin gefragt. She was initially seen as a possible successor to German chancellor Angela Merkel. [103] From 2018 until her nomination as European Commission president she was described as the favourite to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as Secretary General of NATO. The auditing office has found several irreglularities in how the contracts were awarded. Das Haus besteht jedoch infolge von Adoption fort: Der letzte Fürst adoptierte 1969 den Sohn seiner Tochter. [21] She is a keen equestrian and has been involved in competitive horseriding. Polska odpowiada – Waszczykowski łagodnie, Macierewicz ostro. [151], In 2013, von der Leyen unsuccessfully campaigned for a statutory quota for female participation in the supervisory boards of companies in Germany, requiring company boards to be at least 20% female by 2018, rising to 40% by 2023. She served as a deputy leader of the CDU from 2010 to 2019, and has previously been regarded as a leading contender to succeed Merkel as chancellor and as the favourite to become secretary-general of NATO. [49][50][99][100][101][102] In 2010 she was Merkel's preferred candidate for President of Germany, but her nomination was blocked by the conservative wing of the CDU/CSU. Ursula von der Leyen bewegt sich schon lange auf dem Parkett der internationalen Politik, doch bleibt sie der Region Hannover treu. Eine Spurensuche führt zur „Tundrinsheide“ nach Beinhorn. [158][159] In 2016, von der Leyen caused controversy after she refused to wear a hijab while visiting Saudi Arabia. Ihr Vater war langjähriger Ministerpräsident von Niedersachsen und gewährte der Öffentlichkeit oft Einblicke in das Familienleben. [43][44] In the negotiations to form a government following the 2005 federal elections, Von der Leyen led the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on families; her co-chair from the SPD was Renate Schmidt. [142] Von der Leyen successfully influenced public opinion of her reforms with a 3-million-euro PR campaign, which was criticized for using public funds for political advocacy and for employing embedded marketing techniques.