# Ursula von der Leyen’s Father and the Celle Hole Scandal

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119294873568154058
- Source account: [@Sat299535399065](https://x.com/Sat299535399065)
- Source language: German
- Target language: English
- Duration: 2:30
- Published: 2026-11-08
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- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/de/das-celler-loch-ernst-albrecht-und-ursula-von-der-leyens-familiengeschichte.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal) There are facts about Ursula von der Leyen’s family history that she’d probably most like to have erased from every archive in the world.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=7) Ursula von der Leyen seems to know exactly how to achieve her goals and it’s reasonable to suspect that she learned it from someone, that she had a mentor and a role model.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=18) And that brings us to her father, Ernst Albrecht, the former Minister-President of Lower Saxony.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=25) Because he quite literally set off a bomb, on July 25, 1978, at 2:54 in the morning, a bomb detonated on the outer wall of Celle Prison and tore a forty-centimeter hole in the wall.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=44) The RAF was quickly blamed for the operation on the grounds that they wanted to free an imprisoned comrade.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=51) But eight years later, a second bomb was supposed to go off.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=53) A journalist from the Hannoversche Zeitung was able to expose the RAF’s lie and name the real masterminds behind the operation.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=61) The journalist Neufeld had uncovered that the RAF had nothing to do with it at all, but that Operation Fire Devil had been carried out by the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution on the orders of, and with the knowledge of,

[1:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=74) the highest levels of government, including Ernst Albrecht.

[1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=78) The SPD’s leading candidate at the time, Gerhard Schröder, then accused Ernst Albrecht uh, of using terrorist methods to fight terrorism.

[1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=86) Ernst Albrecht replied that he had assumed, that this was exactly what the public would expect of him.

[1:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=92) In the parliamentary inquiry that followed, Ernst Albrecht and others were accused of deliberately spreading disinformation.

[1:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=101) Ernst Albrecht, however, was unmoved by every criticism and every accusation, and continued to bask in self- praise.

[1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=109) He saw the whole operation as justified, seeing the deception of the public as a kind of service to the people, true to the motto: The end justifies the means.

[2:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=122) The story of the so-called Celle Hole was a brief glimpse into Ursula von der Leyen's childhood.

[2:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=128) Just as a reminder: Ursula von der Leyen is the woman who, by text message, struck a billion-dollar deal with Pfizer's CEO, Albert Bourla, by text message. and refuses to disclose the text messages.

[2:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=140) And she's the woman who specifically tackles disinformation.

[2:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/vTtXDzAwQF1g/en/ursula-von-der-leyen-s-father-and-the-celle-hole-scandal?t=146) But as the saying goes, The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.