page_title: Ernst Albrecht (politician, born 1930)
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Ernst Albrecht (politician, born 1930) / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ernst Albrecht und Ehefrau Adele
context_page_description: Ernst Carl Julius Albrecht was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union and a former high-ranking European civil servant. He was one of the first European civil servants appointed in 1958 and served as Director-General of the Directorate-General for Competition from 1967 to 1970. He served as Minister President of the state of Lower Saxony from 1976 to 1990. He was the father of the politician Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission.
context_section_description: Ernst Albrecht married Heidi Adele Stromeyer (1928–2002) in 1953. They had seven children, among them politician Ursula von der Leyen and Hans-Holger Albrecht, President & CEO of the international telecom and media group Deezer. A daughter died at age 11 and one son at age 49 of cancer. 
  His brother is George Alexander Albrecht, a conductor. He had Alzheimer's disease since 2003, which was announced to the public in 2008.  He died at the age of 84 in Burgdorf in December 2014.
caption: Ernst and Adele Albrecht (1985)
exif: {}