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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. Her father served as Minister President of Lower Saxony (state prime minister) from 1976 to 1990, being re-elected in state parliament elections in 1978, 19. In 1971, she relocated to Lehrte in the Hanover region after her father had become CEO of the food company Bahlsen and involved in state politics in Lower Saxony. She attended the European School, Brussels I. 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.

In the family, she has been known since childhood as Röschen, a diminutive of Rose. Von der Leyen was born in 1958 in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium, where she lived until she was 13 years old. Von der Leyen was included in Time 's 100 Most Influential People of 2020. She was then elected by the European Parliament on 16 July she took office on 1 December, becoming the first woman in such role. On 2 July 2019, von der Leyen was proposed by the European Council as the candidate for President of the European Commission. 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. When she left office she was the only minister to have served continuously in Angela Merkel's cabinet since Merkel became chancellor. 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. 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. As a mother of seven children, she was a housewife during parts of the 1990s and lived for four years in Stanford, California, while her husband was on faculty at Stanford University, returning to Germany in 1996. In 1986 she married fellow physician Heiko von der Leyen of the von der Leyen family of silk merchants. After graduating as a physician from the Hannover Medical School in 1987, she specialized in women's health. 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. She moved to Hanover in 1971, when her father entered politics to become Minister President of the state of Lower Saxony in 1976. She was brought up bilingually in German and French. Her father, Ernst Albrecht, was one of the first European civil servants. She was born and raised in Brussels to German parents. Von der Leyen is a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its EU counterpart, the European People's Party (EPP). Prior to her current position, she served in the Cabinet of Germany from 2005 to 2019, holding successive positions in Angela Merkel's cabinet, serving most recently as Minister of Defence. Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen ( German: ( 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.