[71], On the contrary, von der Leyen said that giving the Ukrainians arms to help them defend themselves could have unintended and fateful consequences. Werner Mussler, Brüssel An article in The Guardian says that the reason for Germany's refusal to vote for her is that von der Leyen is divisive. 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. 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. Footage showed Von der Leyen gesture in … wie sich doch der MainStream ändert, wenn die Kaxxe am Dampfen ist.----> das muß ich noch ergänzen: „Und wie können nur Lichtgestalten wie Ursula von der Leyen oder Jens Spahn erwägen, den Putin-Impfstoff in Deutschland einzusetzen? [56] In 2012, she was re-elected (with 69% of the votes) as one of Merkel's deputies as CDU chairwoman, this time serving alongside Bouffier, Julia Klöckner, Armin Laschet and Thomas Strobl. Offenheit sei keine Einbahnstraße. [22], In 1977, she started studying economics at the University of Göttingen. She was reappointed as family minister,[47] but on 30 November 2009 succeeded Franz Josef Jung as Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs. 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. [15] She is the niece of the conductor George Alexander Albrecht and a first cousin of the chief conductor of the Dutch National Opera Marc Albrecht. In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the elections, she led the CDU/CSU delegation in the working group on health policy; her co-chair from the FDP was Philipp Rösler. 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. News that this Wunderfrau — aka German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen — could become the Commission’s next president left European capitals abuzz on Tuesday. ", 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? Anfangs war es Heiko von der Leyen, der die Familie ernährt und kaum gesehen hat. "[24] She returned to Germany in 1979 but lived with a security detail at her side for several years. [117], In March 2020 von der Leyen's Commission turned down the idea of suspending the Schengen free travel zone in order to introduce border controls around Italy, at that time the European centre of the coronavirus pandemic,[124][125][126] The decision drew criticism from some European politicians. [101], On the deteriorating relationship between Europe and Russia during the 2014 Crimean crisis, she argued that "the reliance on a functioning business relationship with Europe is much, much bigger in Russia" and that sanctions should prod the oligarchs and Russian business. Doch ihre Wurzeln liegen in dem 137 Einwohner-Örtchen Beinhorn in der Nähe von Burgdorf. In 2001 she earned a Master of Public Health degree at the institution. "[174] In an interview with The Guardian days after her election to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as President of the European Commission, she stated that the withdrawal deal agreed between Theresa May and chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier would remain the basis of any future talks. Margarete Hucht, Spiegel Online, 06.03.2015 "eine intelligent komponierte Analyse der Person und Politik von der Leyens" Robin Alexander, Die Welt, 21.03.2015 She was born and raised in Brussels to German parents. [18] The Von der Leyen family are Lutheran members of the Evangelical Church of Germany. [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. Jest reakcja ministra Macierewicza. [170], In 2015, von der Leyen argued that a form of EU army should be a long-term goal. 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[57], In the negotiations to form a government following the 2013 federal elections, von der Leyen led the CDU/CSU delegation in the labour policy working group, with Andrea Nahles of the SPD as her co-chair. [145] The combination of a sensitive topic like child pornography and internet censorship is said to have caused a rising interest in the Pirate Party. Von der Leyen werde wohl nicht mit der ganzen Familie in den Amtssitz nach Berlin umziehen, meinte eine frühere Weggefährtin. [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. Nach der Geburt von David, heute 19 Jahre alt, blieb Ehefrau Ursula, ebenfalls Medizinerin, zu Hause. 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". A vital provision of the agreement is that the Filipino workers are to be employed on the same terms and conditions as their German counterparts. Doch ihre Wurzeln liegen in dem 137 Einwohner-Örtchen Beinhorn in der Nähe von Burgdorf. !“ Oskar Lafontaine Polska odpowiada – Waszczykowski łagodnie, Macierewicz ostro. Stefan Wagstyl (6 October 2014), "Ursula von der Leyen vows to tackle Germany military budget". Following her nomination as a candidate for Commission President, the Commission provided her with a salary, office, and staff in Brussels to facilitate negotiations between the EU institutions as to her election. [178], In 2019 and again in 2020, Forbes listed her as the fourth most powerful woman in the world. [86], Early in her tenure, von der Leyen pledged to get a grip on Germany's military equipment budget after publishing a KPMG report on repeated failures in controlling suppliers, costs and delivery deadlines, e.g., with the Airbus A400M Atlas transport plane, Eurofighter Typhoon jet and the Boxer armoured fighting vehicle. After graduating as a physician from the Hannover Medical School in 1987, she specialized in women's health. [16], In 1986, she married physician Heiko von der Leyen, a member of the von der Leyen family that made a fortune as silk merchants and was ennobled in 1786; her husband became a professor of medicine and the CEO of a medical engineering company. [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. [149] However, child pornography is, in fact, illegal in India, which has much stricter rules about erotic media than Germany. Was es noch über die zierliche CDU-Politikerin zu wissen gibt, über ihr Vermögen, ihre Ausbildung und Familie, erfahren Sie in diesem Artikel. Kein Zweifel, Ursula von der Leyen ist eine vorbildliche Frau. Lapsus językowy? Von der Leyen is a member of the German branch of the European Movement. She also noted that Russia has an almost infinite supply of weapons it could send into Ukraine. [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. Ministerin Ursula von der Leyen über ihr Leben mit sieben Kindern, existentielle Ängste und ob es ihren Mann ärgert, dass sie mehr verdient als er. [31], From 1998 to 2002, she taught at the Department of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health System Research at the Hannover Medical School. [91][92] She also promoted the German government's decisions on arms exports to Saudi Arabia and Turkey.[93][94]. Das Geschlecht ist 1971 mit Ferdinand Maria Prinz von der Leyen im Mannesstamm erloschen. [74], In 2014, von der Leyen introduced a €100 million plan to make the Bundeswehr more attractive to recruits, including by offering crèches for soldiers' children, limiting postings to match school term dates, and considerable rises in hardship allowances for difficult postings. [62], Within her first year in office, von der Leyen visited the Bundeswehr troops stationed in Afghanistan three times and oversaw the gradual withdrawal of German soldiers from the country as NATO was winding down its 13-year combat mission ISAF. Von der Leyen “was clearly surprised” by the seating arrangements “as you can see in the video,” Mamer said. "[129] Von der Leyen condemned the U.S. decision to restrict travel from the coronavirus-affected Europe to the United States. In May 2015, the German government approved an increase in defence spending, at the time 1.3% of GDP, by 6.2% over the following five years, allowing the Ministry of Defense to modernize the army fully. [37] Various media outlets also criticized that the decision was nontransparent, not according to established rules and failing to secure high academic standards. Since 2018 an investigative committee organized by Germany’s Federal Audit Office is looking into how contracts worh tens of millions of euros were awarded to external consultancy firms [1] [2][62]. [33][34] Multiple notable German academics such as Gerhard Dannemann [de] and Volker Rieble [de] publicly accused von der Leyen of intended plagiarism. Das Haus besteht jedoch infolge von Adoption fort: Der letzte Fürst adoptierte 1969 den Sohn seiner Tochter. 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. [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. [131] Slightly less than a month later the Greek prime minister asked for sanctions against Turkey, citing von der Leyen's stance over Belarus as an obvious precedent,[132] but von der Leyen explained that Turkey and Belarus are "two different situations".[133]. [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. Annett Meiritz und Philipp Wittrock (4 December 2012). Ursula von der Leyen has seven children Credit: AFP Ursula has seven children, who were born between 1987 and 1999. 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Von der Leyen. [65] She later opposed the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. [68][69][70], At the Munich Security Conference in 2015, von der Leyen publicly defended the German refusal to supply Ukraine with weapons. Ursula von der Leyen was appointed president of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, in July 2019. Upon completing her doctoral studies, she graduated as a Doctor of Medicine in 1991. [104][105][106] Die Welt reported that von der Leyen "is highly respected in the alliance" and that "all the [NATO] defence ministers listen when she speaks. ", "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? She attended the European School, Brussels I.[8]. In the family, she has been known since childhood as Röschen, a diminutive of Rose. Ursula von der Leyen wurde am 08.10.1958 in Brüssel als Tochter des CDU-Politikers Ernst Albrecht und seiner Frau Heidi Adelegeboren. Among her ancestors were Carolina governors John Yeamans, James Moore, Robert Gibbes, Thomas Smith and Joseph Blake, Pennsylvania deputy governor Samuel Carpenter, and the American revolutionary and lieutenant governor of South Carolina James Ladson. [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. Verein: SC Paderborn. „Bei uns zuhause wurde viel über Politik geredet“, sagt die charismatische CDU-Frau heute. "[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. She told Germany's Funke Media Group in an interview published Saturday that the EU had the "possibility" to ban exports. [29], In 1980, she switched to studying medicine and enrolled at the Hannover Medical School, where she graduated in 1987 and acquired her medical license. [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. 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. 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. Waszczykowski: Pomruki pruskiego tonu w tonacji "Ody do radości", Attache obrony Niemiec wezwany do MON. Von der Leyen was elected as a member of the CDU executive board in December 2014 and received 70.5% of the votes. Ursula von der Leyen refused to sign a plea from more than 20 world leaders calling for a new global treaty on pandemic preparedness, it was claimed today. Ihr Vater war langjähriger Ministerpräsident von Niedersachsen und gewährte der Öffentlichkeit oft Einblicke in das Familienleben. In 1986 she married fellow physician Heiko von der Leyen of the noble von der Leyen family of silk merchants. [176], When the Federal Constitutional Court ruled in favour of tax equality to same-sex couples in 2013, von der Leyen came forward in support of equal adoption rights, arguing that "I know of no study that says that children growing up in same-sex partnerships fare any differently than children who grow up in heterosexual marriages or partnerships. In July 2019 she became the first woman … Her father, Ernst Albrecht, was one of the first European civil servants. Von der Leyen kehrt für ihre neue Aufgabe in ihre Geburtsstadt Brüssel zurück. The so-called Herzog Commission, named after its chairman, the former German President Roman Herzog, recommended a comprehensive package of reform proposals including, among other things, decoupling health and nursing care premiums from people's earnings and levying a monthly lump sum across the board instead. Ursula von der Leyen, Belgian-born German politician who was the first woman to serve as Germany’s minister of defense (2013–19). 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.” [84][85] In February 2017, the German government announced another expansion, which would increase the number of its professional soldiers by 20,000 by 2024. Will India Purchase German Stealth Submarines? Eine Spurensuche führt zur „Tundrinsheide“ nach Beinhorn. The news media later reported that Wulff's nomination came as a blow to Merkel, whose choice of Leyen had been blocked by the two parties' more conservative state premiers. [17] They have seven children, born between 1987 and 1999. [59] She is the only minister to remain with Merkel since she became chancellor in 2005. She later expressed regret for having cited an inaccurate study. [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. That same month, she participated in the first joint cabinet meeting of the governments of Germany and Turkey in Berlin. He married Louise Dorothea Betty von Knoop (1844–1889), a daughter of Baron Johann Ludwig von Knoop, one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the 19th century Russian Empire. 72.000 Euro Kosten: Kritik an von der Leyens neuer Unterkunft [1] When she left office she was the only minister to have served continuously in Angela Merkel's cabinet since Merkel became chancellor. Moreover, they have a strong social and economic impact, they disrupt people's lives and business across the borders. 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. He declared that von der Leyen tampered with Polish internal affairs, speculated about a German tendency to influence Polish domestic politics, and regretted reportedly increasingly patronizing German stand towards Poland. They are called: David, 33, Sophie, 31, … Von der Leyen is also under fire for agreeing to refurbish the German navy’s three-masted training ship, the Gorch Fock. [152], Von der Leyen is a proponent of a more assertive foreign policy. Lebe immer first class sonst tun es deine Erben..... Nach oben. Ursula von der Leyen ist am 8. In 2005, she joined the federal cabinet, first as Minister of Family Affairs and Youth from 2005 to 2009, then as Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from 2009 to 2013, and finally as Minister of Defence from 2013 to 2019, the first woman to serve as German defence minister. Von der Leyen tried to sound a hopeful longer-term note on EU vaccine supplies, raising the target for the 450m-population bloc for the second quarter of the year from 300m doses to 360m. "[173] She has described Brexit as "a burst bubble of hollow promises. Also es ist unsere Aufgabe auch, sozusagen diesen Diskurs aufrecht zu erhalten”. Dabei laufen die Untersuchungen zum Bundeswehrberater-Skandal noch auf Hochtouren. [67] By April 2016, under von der Leyen's leadership, the German Federal Armed Forces announced they would commit 65 million Euro to establish a permanent presence at Incirlik Air Base, as part of Germany's commitment to the military intervention against ISIL. 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. She was initially seen as a possible successor to German chancellor Angela Merkel. [163] The Polish Minister of Defence summoned the Germany military attache and demanded explanations. [60], Former British Secretary of State for Defence Michael Fallon noted in 2019 that she had been "a star presence" in the NATO community and "the doyenne of NATO ministers for over five years". She met him at a university choir in Göttingen. 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. [116], Von der Leyen unveiled the new proposed EU Commission's structure (whom she deemed to be a "geopolitical" one)[117] on 10 September 2019, renaming a number of posts of the College of Commissioners to make them sound less formal and more goal-oriented, including the controversial portfolio for "Protecting our European Way of Life",[118][119] a vice-presidency responsible for the coordination of migration, security, employment and education policies. [150], Von der Leyen was in charge of the request to ban and rate the Rammstein album Liebe ist für alle da by the Federal Review Board for Media Harmful to Minors. [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]. 1. Von der Leyen nächtigt nun im Verteidigungsministerium in "einem 7,4 Quadratmeter großen Durchgangsraum zum Sanitärbereich, der mit einem schmalen Bett … In the late 1990s, she became involved in local politics in the Hanover region, and she served as a cabinet minister in the state government of Lower Saxony from 2003 to 2005. Ab sofort arbeitet Ursula von der Leyen in Brüssel, dem Zentrum Europas. BERLIN — A polyglot Brussels native who reared seven children and earned a medical degree on the side before storming to the top of German politics. "[168], In a 2011 interview with Der Spiegel, von der Leyen expressed her preference for "a united states of Europe – run along the lines of the federal states of Switzerland, Germany or the USA" which would capitalize on Europe's size by agreeing on core issues relating to finance, tax and economic politics. [48], During her time in office, von der Leyen cultivated the image of being the social conscience of the CDU[49] and helped Merkel to move the CDU into the political centre-ground. [167], Von der Leyen responded to Donald Trump's criticism of the Russian-backed Nord Stream 2—a pipeline for delivering natural gas from Russia to Germany—in an interview with the BBC: "We have an independent energy supply, we are an independent country, we are just diversifying. [36][37], The university decided not to revoke von der Leyen's medical degree. Dass Politiker Flüchtlinge bei sich aufnehmen, ist in der Tat selten. [158][159] In 2016, von der Leyen caused controversy after she refused to wear a hijab while visiting Saudi Arabia. [51] By placing a significant party figure such as von der Leyen at the head of the Defence Ministry, Merkel was widely seen as reinvigorating the scandal-ridden ministry's morale and prestige. they claimed that German foreign policy was not forged on TV-shows, that von der Leyen's words were taken out of context and that the general tone of her statement was highly sympathetic towards Poland. 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. Von der Leyen, he suggests, may have been guilty of letting Boris Johnson get under her skin. Euro-Uschi hat es geschafft. Oktober 1958 in Ixelles/Elsene, einer Gemeinde in der Region Brüssel, als „Ursula Albrecht“ geboren worden. [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. Sie ist die Tochter des ehemaligen Ministerpräsidenten von Niedersachsen Ernst Albrecht (1930–2014) und dessen Ehefrau … "Zum Abi-Ball gehen, ist doch Ehrensache“, findet Ursula von der Leyen. From 2003 to 2005 she was a minister in the state government of Lower Saxony, serving in the cabinet of Christian Wulff, with responsibility for social affairs, women, family, and health. Kommissionschefin Ursula von der Leyen will das im Streit um Lieferausfälle von Astra-Zeneca ändern. ", "Germany Appoints 1st Female Defense Minister", "Von der Leyen: pro-EU fixture in Merkel's Cabinets", "Who is Ursula von der Leyen, the New EU Commission President? 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. [89] Also in 2015, von der Leyen chose MBDA, jointly owned by Airbus, Britain's BAE Systems, and Italy's Leonardo S.p.A., to build the Medium Extended Air Defense System, but set strict milestones for it to retain the contract. [113], Von der Leyen supported the proposed European Union–Mercosur free trade agreement,[114] which would form one of the world's largest free trade areas. Following Scandinavian models, the scheme reserves two additional months for fathers who go on parental leave as well (Vätermonate in German). The von der Leyen Commission is the current European Commission, in office since 1 December 2019 and is to last until the 2024 elections. 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