Andreas Schulze (born 1964) is a German

political consultant Political consulting is a form of consulting that consists primarily of advising and assisting political campaigns. Although the most important role of political consultants is arguably the development and production of mass media (largely tel ...

for the

Alliance 90/The Greens Alliance 90/The Greens (german: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, ), often simply referred to as the Greens ( ), is a Green politics, green List of political parties in Germany, political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 as the merger of The Greens ...

, and the designated Press Secretary of the

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Joachim Gauck Joachim Wilhelm Gauck (; born 24 January 1940) is a German politician and civil rights activist who served as President of Germany from 2012 to 2017. A former Lutheran pastor, he came to prominence as an anti-communist civil rights activist in E ...

. He has previously served as head of communications for the Alliance 90/The Greens in the

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and as spokesman for Federal Minister of Agriculture

Renate Künast Renate Elly Künast (born 15 December 1955) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens party. She was the Minister of Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture from 2001 to 2005 and subsequently served as chairwoman of her party's parliame ...

from 2001 to 2005 as well as during her campaign to be elected

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in 2011. He worked for the

Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records , commonly known as the ) , dissolved = June 17, 2021 , superseding1 = , agency_type = Former Secret Police Archive , jurisdiction = , status = Dissolved, now part of the German Federal Archives ...

from 2006 to 2010, when

Marianne Birthler Marianne Birthler (born 22 January 1948 in Friedrichshain, Berlin) is a German human rights advocate and politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. From 2000 to 2011, she served as the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records, responsible for ...

was commissioner. Schulze proposed

as a presidential candidate in an

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in 2010; Gauck was subsequently nominated by the Greens and the

SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been the ...

, and Schulze was appointed as spokesman for Gauck during his 2010 candidacy for the Greens and the SPD. The two parties nominated him again in 2012, this time with the support also from the

CDU/CSU CDU/CSU, unofficially the Union parties (german: Unionsparteien, ) or the Union, is a centre-right Christian-democratic political alliance of two political parties in Germany: the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Soc ...

and the FDP, and Schulze was appointed as Gauck's spokesman during his presidential candidacy. He has been described by ''

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'' and by '' B.Z.'' as the "Gauck maker,"Der Gauck-Macher

and by the

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' (; ''FAZ''; "''Frankfurt General Newspaper''") is a centre-right conservative-liberal and liberal-conservativeHans Magnus Enzensberger: Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen' (in German). ''Deutschland Radio'', ...

as "the inventor of the designated President."Metamorphose zu sich selbst

He is expected to be appointed presidential press secretary, a position held until 22 December 2011 by Olaf Glaeseker.

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