Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
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Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, sometimes referred to by her initials of AKK, is a retired German politician who has been serving as chair of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation since 2026. She served as Minis
Kramp-Karrenbauer in 2019
Püttlingen, a small town near the German–French border, where Annegret Kramp grew up
Election poster for Kramp-Karrenbauer's 1994 candidacy in Saarland
Minister of Defence Kramp-Karrenbauer and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on 13 April 2021
Ursula von der Leyen
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Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician and physician who has served as President of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019,
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
…plan was that she would resign in the summer and her successor would be elected, but this was postponed to December due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When Ursula von der Leyen was elected President of the European Commission in July 2019, Kramp-Karrenbauer succeeded her as Federal Minister of Defence in the government of…
Official portrait, 2024
Official portrait, 2020
Portrait of Mrs. Robert Gilmor Jr. — Ursula von der Leyen's great-grandmother of the influential South Carolinian planter class family Ladson — painting by Thomas Sully, c. 1823. Von der Leyen lived in London in the late 1970s under the alias Rose Ladson
2005 campaign poster featuring von der Leyen