Background
Bettina Körner was born 25 October 1973 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, the second child of Inge and Horst Körner. Their son, Linus Florian was born two months later.
Bettina Körner was born 25 October 1973 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, the second child of Inge and Horst Körner. Their son, Linus Florian was born two months later.
After completing Abitur at the Leibnizschule in Hanover in 1993, Wulff studied media management and applied media sciences at the University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover and was enrolled there until 2000.
Körner married Christian Wulff on 3 March 2008. Christian and Bettina Wulff each have a child from previous relationships. Bettina Wulff also has a son, Leander Balthasar (born 2003), from an earlier relationship.
Between 1998 and 2000, she worked as a public relations assistant for an internet agency.
After that she was employed as a press officer for a car manufacturing supplier and later for a pharmacy chain. In February 2012, after her husband"s resignation from the Office of German President and in the wake of a scandal about alleged corruption, she founded the public relations agency Bettina Wulff Kommunikation.
In 2012, she undertook legal action against Google, television host Günther Jauch, and 34 other German and foreign bloggers and media, which led to cease and desist orders. The centrepiece of the associated lawsuit is Google"s autocomplete feature, because the search engine would suggest terms such as "escort" and "prostitute" when searching for Wulff"s name.
According to a survey by a polling group for the tabloid Bild am Sonntag, 81% of Germans had never heard the rumours before she started her campaign.