British-American Slave Trader

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Found this interesting because, well, you know, given the past few years...



Joseph Wragg





How the EU president’s family connections explain her rise to power—and failures using it during the pandemic...

The Aristocratic Ineptitude of Ursula Von Der Leyen

Von der Leyen’s family tree traces a legacy of power and brutality, incorporating not only some of Germany’s most significant Nazis but also some of Britain’s largest slave traders and, through marriage, some of the United States’ largest slave owners. Von der Leyen is descended directly from James Ladson, who owned more than 200 slaves when the Civil War broke out.

When von der Leyen was in college and a group of radical, left-wing terrorists called the Red Army Faction (RAF) went on a violent crime spree, Albrecht, concerned his family would become a target of the RAF, implored his beloved Röschen (a diminutive of Rose) to study abroad. She enrolled at the London School of Economics under the name Rose Ladson. Few people at the time were as conscious of the lingering legacies of slavery as we have now become, but her choice to assume the name of her slave-holding ancestors was an indication nevertheless about her comfort with unchallenged and inherited privilege.

For any other politician, one suspects it would have been a career-ending mistake. But the world works differently for von der Leyen, and the press has already largely moved on from her disastrous mismanagement of Europe’s vaccine procurement efforts. She is one of the hübsche, Germany’s privileged few.

And cookies too...


Von der Leyen, then-social affairs minister of Lower Saxony, with her seven children and her husband, Heiko von der Leyen, show cookies they baked in Hanover, Germany, on Nov. 11, 2003.

BTW, she has something in common with Joe...Plagiarism.

She's an extremely powerful aristocrat of German nobility.

In 2019 and again in 2020, The World's 100 Most Powerful Women listed her as the fourth most powerful woman in the world; right beneath Kamala Harris.

In December 2020, von der Leyen was awarded the Global Citizen Prize for World Leader.

Coat of arms of the von der Leyen family:



Her husband is another story that hits more closer to our American shores.