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Helmut Schmidt was the elder of two sons of teachers Ludovica Koch (10 November 1890 – 29 November 1968) and Gustav Ludwig Schmidt (18 April 1888 – 26 March 1981) in Barmbek, a working-class district of Hamburg, in 1918.
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (* 23. Dezember 1918 in Hamburg; † 10. November 2015 ebenda) war ein deutscher Politiker der SPD. Von 1974 bis 1982 war er als Regierungschef einer sozialliberalen Koalition nach dem Rücktritt Willy Brandts der fünfte Bundeskanzler der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Jul 11, 2024 · Helmut Schmidt was a Social Democratic politician who was chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. He later was copublisher (1983–2015) of the influential weekly Die Zeit. Schmidt, who was the son of a half-Jewish teacher, served in the Wehrmacht (German Army) during World War II.
Nov 10, 2015 · Obituary of Helmut Schmidt, who rose to power in West Germany and faced down guerrilla attacks by the Red Army Faction and steered a successful economy.
Nov 10, 2015 · Helmut Schmidt, the former West German chancellor who marshaled personal dynamism, managerial brilliance and often acid-tongued impatience to push his country into an assertive...
Nov 10, 2015 · BERLIN (AP) — Helmut Schmidt was blunt and down to earth, decisive and brimming with self-confidence.
Helmut Schmidt talking to shipyard workers. Photo: Bundesregierung/Reineke. Helmut Schmidt (SPD) continued the SPD/FDP coalition after Willy Brandt’s resignation. He had to deal with economic crises and the acts of terrorism committed by the Red Army Faction (RAF).
1961 –1965. After the SPD loses the federal election in 1961, Schmidt returns to Hamburg. Initially Police Senator, later Home Affairs Senator. Flooding in Hamburg: by organising the rescue from flooding of thousands of people in Hamburg in February 1962, Helmut Schmidt establishes his reputation as a crisis manager.
The Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung commemorates one of the most important 20th-century German statesmen. As a future-oriented think tank, it addresses issues that also animated Schmidt, the pioneering thinker.
Jan 22, 2016 · Hamburg, Germany — HELMUT SCHMIDT, the former German chancellor and renowned postwar statesman who died Tuesday at 96, would have hated to read the adulatory obituaries that have poured forth...
