chancellor website predecessor successor children birth_place religion party office birth_date term_start spouse signature image article_title term_end name alma_mater
angela merkel -lsb- http://www.christianwulff.de/ official website -rsb- horst köhler sigmar gabriel joachim gauck david mcallister annalena linus osnabrück , west germany -lrb- now germany -rrb- roman catholic christian democratic union president of germany prime minister of lower saxony 19 june 1959 30 june 2010 4 march 2003 christiane körner -lrb- m. 2008 -- 2015 -rrb- vogt -lrb- m. 1988 -- 2006 -rrb- bettina christian wulff signature.svg landtag niedersachsen dscf7770 cropped.jpg christian wulff
 17 february 2012 30 june 2010 christian wulff university of osnabrück
christian wulff

christian wilhelm walter wulff -lrb- ; born 1959 -rrb- is a german politician and lawyer .
he served as the president of germany from 2010 to 2012 .
a member of the christian democratic union , he served as prime minister of the state of lower saxony from 2003 to 2010 .
he was elected president in the 30 june 2010 presidential election , defeating opposition candidate joachim gauck and taking office immediately , although he was not sworn in until on 17 february 2012 , wulff resigned as president of germany , facing the prospect of prosecution for allegations of corruption relating to his prior service as prime minister of lower saxony .
