Franca Lehfeldt

Lehfeldt was born 12 September 1989 in Hamburg, West Germany to businessman Claus-Holger Lehfeldt, who was active in the real estate and private equity industry through Lehfeldt GmbH.[3] Her father was born illegitimately through an affair his mother had during the Bombing of Hamburg in 1943.[4] She completed her Abitur at the Castle Neubeuern boarding school in 2009.[5] She then studied business administration and hotel management at Glion Institute of Higher Education in Glion, Switzerland and graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration in 2012. She also holds a Master's degree in Strategic Marketing of International School of Management since 2014.[6]

After completing professional studies at the RTL journalism school, Lehfeldt began to work as a reporter for RTL Group. In April 2021, she was promoted to chief reporter of political magazines.[7] She was employed at infoNetwork GmbH, a subsidiary of RTL, and worked at the headquarters in Berlin, Germany. In 2022, she became chief reporter for Die Welt (Axel Springer SE), a position she held until 2023 when she made public to enter self-employment by founding an agency for communication and marketing.[8]

On July 7, 2022, Lehfeldt married Christian Lindner, on the island of Sylt, Germany.[9] The wedding was attended by several well-known people including Olaf Scholz, Marco Buschmann, Wolfgang Kubicki and Armin Laschet.[10] The festivities also made headlines for being "on the expenditure of the tax payers" however was entirely financed privately with exception of additional security measures.[11] As of 2023, they reside in Berlin, Germany.[12]

• Nena Brockhaus, Franca Lehfeldt: Alte Weise Männer: Hommage an eine bedrohte Spezies. Gräfe und Unzer, München 2023, ISBN 978-3-8338-8739-0 (in German)