Christina Rau

Christina Rau born Delius ( born October 30, 1956 in Bielefeld ) is a German political scientist and widow of former Federal President Johannes Rau ( 1931-2006 ).

Life

Her father was the Bielefeld textile producer Eduard Delius, her mother Christa Delius is daughter of former German President Gustav Heinemann and his wife Hilda Heinemann. She has four siblings. Christina Delius met her future husband Johannes Rau in her childhood in the home of her grandfather know. At age eleven, she went to boarding school at his own request, first to Switzerland to the high Alpine Institute Ftan and later to Gordonstoun in Scotland. Prince Andrew, Duke of York, was one of her classmates. Later she studied political science, economics and history at the University College of Wales and at King's College in London.

After completing her studies she married on August 9, 1982 almost 26 years to 25 years older Johannes Rau, the former Prime Minister of North Rhine -Westphalia. The marriage produced three children, Anna Christina went (born 19 December 1983), Philip Immanuel (born 28 January 1985) and Laura Helene (born 10 November 1986), produced. The residence of the Rau family was up to June 1999 Wuppertal- Elberfeld. After the election of the Federal President Johannes Rau, the family moved its residence in June 1999 in Berlin.

A separate political office sought Christina Rau not to, but supported her husband in his duties, accompanied him on many state visits and took over from her predecessor various sponsorships, particularly through UNICEF Germany, the Müttergenesungswerk, the Federation of organ transplant recipients, the German Children and Youth Foundation and the Youth Red Cross. July 1, 2007 Christina Rau was appointed to the Board of Directors of Bodelschwinghschen Foundation Bethel, the highest decision-making body of Bethel. Since 1999, she visited AIDS orphans in South Africa, institutionalized children in Romania, former child soldiers in Sierra Leone and mine victims in Cambodia.

With the handover of the presidency on July 1, 2004, Horst Köhler his wife Eva Luise Köhler took over the sponsorship. For the children emergency Christina Rau will continue to work. In addition, Christina Rau, since April 2004 Board of Trustees member of the "time" Foundation and advises the Board on promotion decisions. In January 2005 she was commissioned by the then Chancellor Gerhard Schröder with the coordination of the partnership initiative with the help of the destroyed by the tsunami in December 2004 in South Asia areas. For this purpose you an office and staff were asked in the Federal Chancellery available. Christina Rau led the overwhelming offer of assistance in specific projects to tie this long term. In June 2006 she took her husband Johannes Rau posthumously been thought Georg- Meistermann Prize of the Foundation Wittlich contrary. On 26 May 2009 she inaugurated the after her husband (John Rau ) called home for the elderly in Moers.

Since 2006, Rau is the Patron of the educational center campus Riitli in Berlin-Neukölln. In spring 2006, the school became a nationwide negative attention as "Germany's worst school." The Neukölln Mayor Heinz Buschkowsky then called a panel of experts in life that could quickly and thoroughly improve the learning conditions at the school. Because of the successful transformation of a problem into an exemplary school day school struck Rau also Buschkowsky before the Gustav- Heinemann- Citizenship Award. Also since 2006, Christina Rau is the Vice Chairman of the Board of Stiftung Zukunft Berlin.

Christina Rau is a keen sportswoman. Her hobbies include horseback riding, hang gliding, skiing, snowboarding, surfing, diving and skydiving.

Awards

  • 2000: Order of Mary's Land - Cross ( First Class )
  • 2001: National Order of Merit
  • 2002: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
  • 2002: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  • 2003: Grand Cross with chain of the Order of Three - Star Order
  • 2003: Grand Cross of the Falcon
  • 2004: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
  • 2004: Grand Gold Medal with Ribbon for Services to the Republic of Austria
  • 2009: Order of Merit of the Federal State of Berlin
Military use of children Kindernothilfe 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami Jinete Underwater diving National Order of Merit (Malta) Order of the Three Stars Order of the Falcon Berliner Morgenpost Elly Heuss-Knapp Mildred Scheel Veronica Carstens Christiane Herzog Joachim Gauck Daniela Schadt
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