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,
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
Heiko von der Leyen
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Heiko Echter von der Leyen is a German physician. He was born into the von der Leyen family in Hanover. Von der Leyen is married to Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission since
Ursula von der Leyen
…from the London School of Economics in 1978, and in 1987, she acquired her medical licence from Hanover Medical School. After marrying fellow physician Heiko von der Leyen, she lived for four years in the United States with her family in the 1990s. After returning to Germany she became involved in local politics in the…
Heiko von der Leyen