Olaf Glaeseker

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Olaf Glaeseker at Lambertz Monday Night in February 2016.

Olaf Glaeseker (* 1961 in Oldenburg ) is a former German political official , journalist and lobbyist . He was u. a. since his inauguration on June 30, 2010 until December 22, 2011 the spokesman for Federal President Christian Wulff .

Live and act

After graduating from high school , which he passed in 1981 at the then Hindenburg School in Oldenburg, and after completing his military service , Glaeseker studied sports science at the German Sport University in Cologne . During his studies, which he completed with a diploma, and afterwards he worked for several regional newspapers , most recently as a political correspondent in Bonn for the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung .

In 1999 he became spokesman for the CDU in Lower Saxony . With Christian Wulff's election victory and his assumption of office as Minister-President of Lower Saxony in 2003, he was appointed Lower Saxony's government spokesman, and from 2008 onwards with the rank of State Secretary . Glaeseker is largely attributed to having "opened" the then opposition leader and CDU state chairman Christian Wulff to the media and thus enabled him to rise to power. After Wulff's election as Federal President in 2010, Glaeseker followed him to Berlin as his press spokesman. They are like Siamese twins, Wulff once said about the relationship between him and Glaeseker.

In December 2011, Wulff fell because of an assumed personal loan during his time as Prime Minister of Lower Saxony in the criticism . Crisis management was seen as a major challenge for Glaeseker, but it was also criticized for this. On December 22nd, Glaeseker asked for his release as spokesman and was then released from his duties by Lothar Hagebölling , the head of the Federal President's Office. Glaeseker was considered Wulff's closest confidante. On January 19, 2012, Glaeseker's private and business premises as well as his office in the Federal President's Office were searched on the order of the Hanover public prosecutor's office because of the allegation of corruption . In March 2013 the public prosecutor brought charges against him at the regional court for bribery and against event manager Manfred Schmidt for bribery. On September 6, 2013, the Hanover Regional Court admitted the indictment and announced December 9, 2013 as the start of the trial. At the start of the process, he read out a statement: "I have always seen myself as a worker in the Lord's vineyard ." The court dropped the case in 2014 for a sum of 25,000 euros.

From January 2015 to June 2017 Glaeseker was Head of Corporate Communications and Authorized Representative for Government Relations at the Braunschweig fashion chain New Yorker . Since July 1, 2017, he has been the chief lobbyist of the media group Hubert Burda Media as Director Public Affairs .

Private

As a teenager, Glaeseker was a successful all-rounder and two-time Lower Saxony champion in the long jump . Glaeseker lives with his wife Vera, also a journalist, in Steinhude , Lower Saxony .

Web links

Commons : Olaf Glaeseker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Closest adviser to the President . NWZ Online. August 11, 2010. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  2. ↑ Olaf Glaeseker - the "presidential whisperer" . tagesschau.de. January 19, 2012. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
  3. ↑ The feel-good Wulff . Focus Online. January 14, 2008. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
  4. ↑ Wulff brings two confidants to Berlin . The daily mirror. July 5, 2010. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
  5. ↑ Bernhard Walker: The inventor of the mother-in-law dream must go, in: Badische Zeitung No. 297, December 23, 2011, p. 2.
  6. ↑ Olaf Glaeseker - The presidential whisperer . Financial Times Germany. December 18, 2011. Archived from the original on January 7, 2012. Retrieved on February 8, 2012.
  7. ↑ Wulff's whisperer from the province . Southgerman newspaper. December 22, 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
  8. ↑ Federal President Wulff dismisses his spokesman . World online. December 22, 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
  9. ↑ The strange departure of Wulff's best man . Mirror online. December 23, 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
  10. ^ Search of Wulff's former spokesman . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. January 19, 2012. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
  11. ^ "Affair damages Germany's reputation" . Southgerman newspaper. January 29, 2012. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
  12. ↑ Ex-Wulff spokesman Glaeseker: Public prosecutor's office is bringing charges . Mirror online. March 6, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  13. ↑ Ex-Wulff spokesman Olaf Glaeseker is charged . Hannoversche Allgemeine. March 6, 2013. Retrieved March 6, 2013.
  14. ↑ Ex-spokesman for Christian Wulff: Olaf Glaeseker must now go to court . Focus Online. December 9, 2013. Retrieved January 18, 2016.
  15. ↑ http://www.taz.de/Wulffs-Ex-Ssprecher-Glaeseker-vor-Gericht/!129039
  16. ↑ http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/ehemaliger-wulff-sprecher-glaeseker-ich-habe-mich-im-sinne-meines-dienstherren-engagiert-1.1839186
  17. ↑ Beck Aktuell: Trial against Wulff's ex-spokesman Glaeseker is set for 25,000 euros
  18. ↑ Olaf Glaeseker resigns from the Hannoversche Allgemeine on December 23, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Glaeseker, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political official, journalist, government spokesman for Lower Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldenburg)