Olaf Glaeseker (born 1961 in

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) is a German

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, journalist, publicist, and a close confidant of former

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Christian Wulff Christian Wilhelm Walter Wulff (; born 1959) is a retired German politician and lawyer who served as President of Germany from 2010 to 2012. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he previously served as minister president of the ...

. He served as the President's press secretary from 30 June 2010 to 22 December 2011. He came under criticism for alleged corruption, and resigned a few weeks before the President himself resigned. After his military service, he studied at the

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. As a student, he worked for several regional newspapers, and became political correspondent in

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for the

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. In 1999, he was appointed spokesman for the Christian Democratic Union in the state of

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. Following Christian Wulff's election as

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, he was appointed government spokesman in 2003, and was raised to become State Secretary in 2008. Glaeseker was credited with a successful public relations campaign for Wulff. Following Wulff's election as

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in 2010, Glaeseker became the presidential press secretary. In December 2011, Wulff came under criticism, and so did Glaeseker. He was criticized by

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, Wulff's successor as Prime Minister of Lower Saxony. On 22 December, he tendered his resignation.

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