Bettina Wulff

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Bettina Wulff (* 25. October 1973 as Bettina Körner in Hannover ) is the second, estranged wife of former German Federal President Christian Wulff . Before her husband's presidency, she worked as a press officer and after his resignation in 2012, she set up her own PR agency .

Life

education and profession

Bettina Wulff grew up as the daughter of a bank employee in Großburgwedel . After graduating from the Leibniz School in Hanover in 1993, she studied media management and applied media sciences at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Research at the University of Music, Theater and Media in Hanover until 2000 (without a degree).

From 1998 Wulff was a PR assistant for an internet agency. In 2000 she moved to Hanover to work for the automotive supplier Continental AG , for which she worked as a press officer until 2009. She then worked part-time as press officer for the Rossmann drugstore chain in Großburgwedel. After Christian Wulff was elected Federal President on June 30, 2010, she gave up this position.

Following the resignation of her husband as president in February 2012 ( Wulff affair ) they made off with the PR agency Bettina Wulff - communication independently . At the 2012 Summer Paralympics , she represented the medical technology company Otto Bock HealthCare .

Private life

In 2006, Bettina Körner got to know the then Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Christian Wulff. The occasion was a business trip as a press officer for Continental AG to Port Elizabeth in South Africa, which she had organized at the request of the Lower Saxony State Chancellery . After Christian Wulff's divorce in February 2008, they married in March 2008 and Körner took her husband's name. Bettina Wulff brought her son, born in 2003 from a relationship, into the marriage; Christian Wulff's daughter from his first marriage lives with her mother. A son was born in summer 2008. The couple separated in January 2013 and decided in 2015 to continue the marriage. On October 17, 2015, Bettina and Christian Wulff also married in church.

On September 17, 2018, Bettina Wulff caused a traffic accident on a country road near her home town Großburgwedel without personal injury. She then called the police herself, whereupon a breath alcohol test is said to have shown a value of more than two per mille . As a result, a penalty order in the amount of 40 daily rates and an eleven-month driving ban were issued against Wulff .

The couple separated again in October 2018. Their son from their first marriage and their son with Wulff both live with Christian Wulff.

Public duties and honorary positions

Christian and Bettina Wulff in Bellevue Palace at the “Summer Festival of the Federal President” on July 2nd, 2010

Bettina Wulff was the patron of the Ein Chance für Kinder foundation from 2008 to September 2012 . After her husband was elected Federal President , she also took on various patronages as the wife of her predecessor Eva Luise Köhler , such as those for the Mothers' Recovery Organization (from September 2010), the German Children and Youth Foundation (from October 1, 2010) and for UNICEF Germany ( from December 1, 2010).

Her patronage for the mother's convalescence organization traditionally ended when her husband left office and later passed on to Daniela Schadt as the partner of the new Federal President Joachim Gauck . Schadt also became Wulff's successor in their patronage over UNICEF Germany (on May 23, 2012) and the German Children and Youth Foundation (in July 2012).

On the occasion of the Reformation anniversary in 2017 , Bettina Wulff appeared alongside other celebrities as the “Reformation Ambassador” of the Evangelical Church in Germany .

Disputes about violations of personal rights

At the beginning of September 2012, Bettina Wulff filed a lawsuit against Günther Jauch and also against Google at the Hamburg Regional Court , after 34 German and foreign bloggers and media had already issued declarations of cease and desist in the months before . In doing so, she defends herself against rumors that have been circulating since 2006 that she had worked in the red light district before her marriage to Christian Wulff . The SZ editor Hans Leyendecker used the term "character assassination" in this context. The rumor was spread by CDU circles in Hanover in 2006 to harm her husband, the then incumbent CDU Prime Minister of Lower Saxony.

According to their own account, Wulff's lawyers wanted to remove a total of 51 search terms from the automatic completion function and also delete the corresponding search results. After it was initially reported that there were also references to the German-language Wikipedia article dealing with her , these reports were denied by Wulff's lawyers on November 5. In November 2012, Google deleted eight search results that referred to unlawful factual claims, including three entries on the right-wing extremist blog kreuz.net . Of originally more than 3,000 search results, only these eight were unlawful due to false allegations of fact. In a statement, Google emphasized that the deletion was not related to Wulff's lawsuit against auto-completion .

The Berlin data protection officer, Alexander Dix , took up the case at the German Lawyers' Conference in September 2012 in Munich and commented that Wulff had been charged with false rumors that there was no justification for defamation at the click of a mouse. He fundamentally called for the auto-completion function to be switched off if necessary, and referred to the company's practice in the USA, where Google is preventing this function at the request of US corporations that do not want to be associated with illegal file sharing networks. Google could do the same to protect the constitutionally enshrined personal rights . In contrast, Friedrich Schmidt commented in the FAZ :

"If the legal dispute between Bettina Wulff and Google because of its auto-completion function according to the IT and communication law department of the Juristentag were to be found, the search engine operator would have a narrow victory: a two-vote majority found the proposal to exclude search engine operators from liability for personal rights violations that can be triggered by search results'. "

Immediately after the rumors were picked up in mass media reporting and their media presence was reinforced by Wulff's legal action against their dissemination, which was also highly regarded, Wulff published her autobiographical book Beyond the Protocol in September 2012 , in which she also rejects them.

On May 14, 2013 the Federal Court of Justice announced a ruling on the auto-completion function in a similar case (AZ VI ZR 269/12), in which the BGH affirmed an injunction against Google. This judgment also affects Bettina Wulff's lawsuit against Google. An out-of-court settlement was reached between Wulff and Google.

Publications

literature

Web links

Commons : Bettina Wulff  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bettina Wulff in the Munzinger archive , accessed on September 10, 2012 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  2. ↑ On the person (Bettina Wulff). In: Stern . No. 38/2012, September 13, 2012, p. 35.
  3. ^ A b Sophie Albers: First Lady Bettina Wulff: The tall blonde in the new shoes. stern.de , July 4, 2010, accessed on September 10, 2012 .
  4. ^ Friederike Ott: First Lady Bettina Wulff: Smile for Germany. Spiegel Online , July 13, 2010, accessed September 10, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Bettina Wulff founds PR agency. pr-journal.de, 2012, accessed on September 10, 2012 (No. 37).
  6. ↑ Bettina Wulff said goodbye to German Paralympics technicians in London. (No longer available online.) Otto Bock Group , formerly the original ; Retrieved September 10, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ottobock.de
  7. ↑ Bettina Wulff: Beyond the Protocol. Munich, 2012, pp. 21–27.
  8. ↑ Christian and Bettina Wulff have separated. In: The world . January 7, 2013.
  9. ↑ Christian and Bettina Wulff are a couple again. In: Bunte .
  10. ↑ http://www.presseportal.de/pm/117125/3152652
  11. ↑ Bettina Wulff is said to have driven drunk. Der Spiegel, September 21, 2018, accessed on September 21, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Per mille trip: Investigations against Bettina Wulff. In: New Press. September 21, 2018. Retrieved September 21, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Bettina Wulff has to hand in her driving license for eleven months. In: New Press. November 20, 2018. Retrieved November 20, 2018 .
  14. ^ Marriage-out: Christian and Bettina Wulff have separated again. In: merkur.de. October 31, 2018.
  15. ↑ Wulff gives private insights: Ex-Federal President now lives in an all-male flat share. November 23, 2019, accessed April 29, 2020 .
  16. ↑ The patroness. The First Lady and the Mother Recovery Work. Maternal Recovery Agency website , archived from the original on July 8, 2013 ; Retrieved September 10, 2012 .
  17. ↑ Prominent ambassadors of the Reformation. In: chrismon.evangelisch.de. Retrieved October 24, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Dirk Johannes Andresen: Who wants to harm her? Bettina Wulff: Story of a character assassination. In: Hamburger Morgenpost . September 2012.
  19. ↑ Hans Leyendecker, Ralf Wiegand: Bettina Wulff defends herself against defamation. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . September 7, 2012, accessed September 10, 2012 .
  20. ↑ Holger Schmale: The troubles of the Wulffs. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . 5th November 2012.
  21. ↑ Google deletes search results for Bettina Wulff. In: Handelsblatt . 5th November 2012.
  22. ↑ Bettina Wulff wants to delete 51 Google entries. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . 5th November 2012.
  23. ↑ Holger Dambeck, Christian Buß : Google deletes search results for Bettina Wulff. In: Spiegel Online . November 4, 2012, Retrieved November 4, 2012 .
  24. ↑ Google deletes some Bettina Wulff entries. In: The time . 4th November 2012.
  25. ↑ Jost Müller-Neuhof: Lawyers want to oblige network companies to protect basic rights. In: The time . 4th November 2012.
  26. ^ Friedrich Schmidt: Legal area Internet. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 20th September 2012.
  27. ↑ "Beyond the Protocol": The Bettina Wulff book is on the market. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . September 10, 2012, accessed September 10, 2012 .
  28. ↑ Ulrich Exner: Bettina Wulff - A woman fights for her reputation. In: The world . September 8, 2012.
  29. ↑ Federal Supreme Court decides on the admissibility of personal rights infringing search additions to "Google". In: juris.bundesgerichtshof.de.
  30. ↑ Mirjam Hauck: Google's autocomplete violates personal rights. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 14, 2013.
  31. ↑ Autocomplete function: Bettina Wulff concludes comparison with Google. In: Heise online . January 15, 2015 . Retrieved January 9, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Wulff, Bettina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Körner, Bettina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German PR consultant, former patron of the Müttergenesungswerk and wife of the tenth German President Christian Wulff
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover