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Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (German: [ˈhɛlmuːt ˈʃmɪt] ⓘ; 23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982.
Helmuth Schmidt (July 4, 1876 – April 23, 1918), also known as The American Bluebeard, was a German-born American bigamist, murderer and suspected serial killer.Soon following his arrest in connection with the murder of maid Augusta Steinbach, Schmidt committed suicide in his jail cell.
Helmut Schmidt, West German Chancellor [14] Klaus Schwab (2016), [16] Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum; Jens Spahn (2017), [29] Parliamentary State Secretary and Federal Ministry of Finance; Peer Steinbrück (2011), German Chancellor Candidate [51] Linda Teuteberg (2019), [50] General Secretary, Free Democratic Party
Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who led the country for eight years at the height of the Cold War, has died at the age of 96.
Helmut Schmidt (21 February 1928 – 18 August 2011) was a German-born physicist and parapsychologist whose experiments on extrasensory perception were widely criticized for machine bias, methodological errors and lack of replication. Critics also noted that necessary precautions were not taken to rule out the possibility of fraud.
Since 2021, the Helmut Schmidt Lecture has been held annually in Berlin on the anniversary of Helmut Schmidt's death (10 November). On this occasion, the Foundation invites an outstanding public figure as a "thought leader of today" to speak about a topic that already shaped Schmidt's life and that has not lost its relevance today.
He met then-chancellor Helmut Schmidt professionally; they eventually developed a close personal friendship, and he wrote the biography Helmut Schmidt: Helmsman of Germany in 1985. [1] [2] His 1993 book Goodbye Germany, occasioned by German reunification, was an international bestseller, and in 1998 he wrote Mahler: a Biography of the Austrian ...
The opposition, comprising the center-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU), suspected that the ruling social-liberal coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) under Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (SPD) was ideologically close to the terrorists.