UNELECTED President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and her husband are among the world’s richest physicians. Dubbed Doctor Death because of her pivotal part in the dissolution of the European Union and support for the Kyiv regime she was born on October 8, 1958, in Ixelles, Germany. As of June 1, 2023, Ursula has a net worth of approximately $5 Million but her Big Pharma husband is a Covid-era billionaire.

She was born and raised in Brussels, where her father Ernst Albrecht was one of the first EU civil servants. Brought up bilingually in German and French, she is of German and British-American descent. She moved to Hanover in 1971 when her father entered politics to become Minister-President of the state of Lower Saxony in 1976.

As an economics student at the notoriously left-wing 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.

After graduating as a physician from the Hannover Medical School in 1987, she specialized in women’s health. In 1986 she married fellow physician Heiko von der Leyen of the von der Leyen family of silk merchants. A mother of seven children, she was a housewife during the 1990s and lived for four years in Stanford, California, while her husband was on faculty at Stanford University, returning to Germany in 1996.

Von der Leyen’s father’s grandparents were the cotton merchant Carl Albrecht (1875–1952) and Mary Ladson Robertson (1883–1960), an American who belonged to a plantation-owning family of the southern aristocracy from Charleston, South Carolina.

Her American ancestors played a significant role in the British slave-owning aristocracy and colonization of the Americas. Von der Leyen nee Albrecht descends from many of the first English slavers of Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Barbados, and from numerous colonial-era governors.

Among her ancestors were slave-owning 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.

The Ladson family were large plantation owners. 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. She descends directly from one of the largest British slave traders of the era, Joseph Wragg. Carl and Mary were the parents of Ursula von der Leyen’s grandfather, the psychologist Carl Albrecht, who was known for developing a new method of meditation and for his research on mystical consciousness.

Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen née Albrecht served in the Federal Government of Occupation in Germany from 2005 to 2019 as the longest-serving member of Angela Merkel’s cabinet. She is a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its EU counterpart, the European People’s Party (EPP).

In 1971, she relocated to Lehrte in the Hanover region after her father had become CEO of the food company Bahlsen and was involved in state politics in Lower Saxony. In the 1990 state elections, Ernst Albrecht lost his office to Gerhard Schröder, who later became German Chancellor.

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