Christina Rau (née Delius; 30 October 1956) is the widow of Johannes Rau, President of Germany from 1999–2004.

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Christina Rau
Christina Rau in 2002
Spouse of the President of Germany
In role 1 July 1999 – 30 June 2004
President	Johannes Rau
Preceded by	Christiane Herzog
Succeeded by	Eva Köhler
Personal details
Born	Christina Delius (1956-10-30) 30 October 1956 (age 67) Bielefeld, West Germany
Political party	Social Democratic Party of Germany
Spouse	Johannes Rau ​ ​ (m. 1982; died 2006)​
Relations	Uta Ranke-Heinemann (aunt)
Children	3
Alma mater	University College of Wales King's College London

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Rau is the maternal granddaughter of former President Gustav Heinemann. Her father was Eduard Delius, part in a long line of entrepreneurs in the textile industry of the Westphalian city of Bielefeld while her mother was Christa Heinemann, a daughter of the former President. Through her mother, Rau is the niece of theologian Uta Ranke-Heinemann. She attended boarding school in Switzerland (Hochalpines Institut Ftan) and the United Kingdom (Gordonstoun in Scotland, where Prince Andrew was a contemporary). Subsequently, she studied political science, economics and history at the University College of Wales and at King's College London.

On 9 August 1982, she married Johannes Rau, 25 years her senior and a long-time friend of the Heinemann family, who was at that time the Prime Minister of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

She was the patron of :

• UNICEF Germany,
• the Müttergenesungswerk,
• the Bundesverband der Organtransplantierten,
• the Deutsche Kinder- und Jugendstiftung
• the Red Cross Youth of Germany.