1. Christian Wulff was elected to the presidency in the 30 June 2010 presidential election, defeating opposition candidate Joachim Gauck and taking office immediately, although he was not sworn in until With the age of 51, he became Germany's youngest president.
On 17 February 2012, Christian Wulff resigned as President of Germany, facing the prospect of prosecution for allegations of corruption relating to his prior service as Minister President of Lower Saxony.
Christian Wulff was the first Roman Catholic to hold the post of President of Germany since Heinrich Lubke and the first President to have been born in the post-World War II period.
Christian Wulff's father left the family, and he grew up with his mother.
Christian Wulff joined the Christian Democratic Union of Germany in 1975.
The Christian Democrats made Wulff candidate for Minister President of the state in the run-up of the 1994 parliamentary election.
However, the popular incumbent Gerhard Schroder won an absolute majority in the Lower Saxony legislature, while the state CDU under Christian Wulff received one of its worst results, leading some observers to doubt the wisdom of the provincial party nominating a young and neophyte candidate for Premier.
Christian Wulff had been one of the four deputy chairmen of the CDU party at the federal level after 1998, and had been a board member of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation after 2003.
Christian Wulff entered the race as the favourite to win the election and essentially campaigned on a platform of fiscal restraint and clear-cut reforms in the areas of law enforcement and education.
When Christian Wulff took office, Lower Saxony faced a severe budget crisis, resulting from years of public deficits.
Christian Wulff took a conservative stand on nuclear energy, advocating an extension of the deadlines for the decommissioning of Germany's nuclear reactors.
Christian Wulff announced on 8 January 2006 that Lower Saxony would become the first state to approve a new model according to which the government will temporarily pay part of the salaries for low-salary jobs, if the employers concerned are willing to employ an employee concerned on a long-term basis.
Christian Wulff was elected President of Germany on 2010 to follow Horst Kohler, who had resigned on 31 May 2010.
Christian Wulff won 625 of 1,242 votes on the third ballot of the Federal Convention.
Christian Wulff became Germany's youngest president at the age of 51 and was sworn in on 2 July 2010 in front of the Bundestag and the Bundesrat.
Christian Wulff was succeeded as Minister President of Lower Saxony by David McAllister.
Christian Wulff criticised the European Central Bank, which had entered a second round of bond buy-ups from heavily indebted euro-zone nations, calling the plan to stabilise the euro "legally and politically questionable".
In December 2011, German media reported allegations that Christian Wulff had deceived the Parliament of Lower Saxony in February 2010, during an inquiry into his connections as Minister President of Lower Saxony with a number of affluent businessmen.
In particular, there were a number of questions concerning the purchase of a house, for which Christian Wulff accepted a loan from an entrepreneur family with whom he was friends.
Additional investigations were launched into Christian Wulff's political dealing with various entrepreneurs with whom he and his family spent their private vacations.
Since it was not clear who had paid for these holidays, Christian Wulff was accused of favoritism and unethical behavior.
On 27 February 2014, two years after his resignation, Christian Wulff was acquitted of all corruption charges by the Hanover regional court.
In 2016 Christian Wulff was awarded the Mercator Visiting Professorship for Political Management at the Universitat Essen-Duisburg's NRW School of Governance.
Christian Wulff gave both seminars and lectures at the university.
Christian Wulff has a son Leander Balthasar from a previous relationship.