Olaf Schultz’s wife – will do the devil

Olaf Schultz likes to talk about Britta Ernst as “the love of my life”. “I love my wife – that is the most important thing in my life,” he told Bild newspaper. He told the women’s magazine Brigitte that without her he would be a completely different person – and thanks to her he would be a better person.

From what little is known about the life of the spouses, one can think that they shaped them more than the other way around. Until his mid-30s, Schulze was hopelessly unathletic. “Olav, I can’t go on like this with you,” Ernst, a passionate runner, said at the time. “You have to do something for your fitness.” That’s when Schultz started jogging and rowing later as well, today it feels smoother than ever. I also once sent him to Kilimanjaro, on study leave, so to speak.