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Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician of the conservative Christian Democratic Union, and the current Federal Minister of Defence, the first woman in German history to hold that office.
She served as the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in the Second Merkel Cabinet and as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth in the First Merkel Cabinet. By profession she is a physician.
Her husband, Heiko von der Leyen, is a professor of medicine and a member of the von der Leyen family of silk industrialists.
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