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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 ...
Nov 10, 2015 · Helmut Schmidt called in the army to fight the flood in Hamburg in 1962Image: picture-alliance/dpa. Meteoric career rise. He first gained a reputation as a cool head in a crisis as the senator for ...
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.
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (December 23, 1918 - November 10, 2015) was a German Social Democratic politician who served as Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Previous to becoming chancellor, he had served in the Hamburg Senate (1961-1965), as Minister of Defense (1969-1972), Minister of Finance (1972-1974), and ...