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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Helmut Schmidt
|image = Helmut Schmidt (13.07.1977).png
|office = [[Chancellor of Germany]]<br><small>([[West Germany]])</small>
||signature = Helmut Schmidt Signature.svg
|image =
|party = [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|Social Democratic Party]]
|predecessor = [[Willy Brandt]]<br>[[Walter Scheel]] (acting)
|presidentoffice = [[GustavChancellor Heinemannof Germany]]<br /><small>([[WalterWest ScheelGermany]])<br/small>[[Karl Carstens]]
|predecessor = [[Willy Brandt]]<br>[[Walter Scheel]] (acting)
|president = [[Gustav Heinemann]]<br/>[[Walter Scheel]]<br/>[[Karl Carstens]]
|successor = [[Helmut Kohl]]
|1blankname = {{nowrap|Vice Chancellor}}
|1namedata = [[Hans-Dietrich Genscher]]<br/>[[Egon Franke (politician)|Egon Franke]]
|term_start = 16 May 1974
|term_end = 1 October 1982
|office office1 = [[ChancellorFederal Ministry of Finance (Germany)|Federal Minister of Finance]]<br /><small>([[West Germany]])</small>
|chancellor1 = [[Willy Brandt]]
|predecessor1 = [[Karl Schiller]]
|successor1 = [[Hans Apel]]
|term_start1 = 7 July 1972
|term_end1 = 16 May 1974
|office2 = [[Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy|Federal Minister for Economics]]<br /><small>([[West Germany]])</small>
|chancellor2 = [[Willy Brandt]]
|predecessor2 = [[Karl Schiller]]
|successor2 = [[Hans Friderichs]]
|term_start2 = 7 July 1972
|term_end2 = 15 December 1972
|office3 = [[Federal Ministry of Defence (Germany)|Federal Minister of Defence]]<br /><small>([[West Germany]])</small>
|chancellor3 = [[Willy Brandt]]
|term_start3 = 22 October 1969
|term_end3 = 7 July 1972
|predecessor3 = [[Gerhard Schröder (CDU)|Gerhard Schröder]]
|successor3 = [[Georg Leber]]
|office4 = Leader of the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD Group]] in the [[Bundestag]]<br /><small>([[West Germany]])</small>
|predecessor4 = [[Fritz Erler (politician)|Fritz Erler]]
|successor4 = [[Herbert Wehner]]
|deputy4 = [[Egon Franke (politician)|Egon Franke]]<br />[[Martin Hirsch]]<br />Ernst Schellenberg
|term_start4 = 14 March 1967
|term_end4 = 22 October 1969
|office5 = Member of the [[Bundestag]]<br />for [[Hamburg|Hamburg-Bergedorf]]
|term_start5 = 20 October 1969
|term_end5 = 18 February 1987
|predecessor5 = Nikolaus Jürgensen
|successor5 = Rolf Niese
|office8 = Member of the [[Bundestag]]<br />for [[Hamburg|Hamburg-Nord II]]
|term_start8 = 15 October 1957
|term_end8 = 17 October 1965
|predecessor8 = Willy Max Rademacher
|successor8 = Rolf Meinecke
|office6 = Member of the [[Bundestag]]<br />for [[Hamburg]]
|term_start6 = 19 October 1965
|term_end6 = 19 October 1969
|constituency6= [[Electoral system of Germany|Party list]]
|term_start7 = 6 October 1953
|term_end7 = 6 October 1957
|constituency7= [[Electoral system of Germany|Party list]]
|office9 = [[Government of Hamburg|Senator of the Interior of Hamburg]]
|1blankname9 = {{nowrap|First Mayor}}
|1namedata9 = [[Paul Nevermann]]<br/>[[Herbert Weichmann]]
|term_start9 = 13 December 1961
|term_end9 = 14 December 1965
|predecessor9 = Wilhelm Kröger
|successor9 = Heinz Ruhau
|birth_name = Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt
|birth_date = {{birth date|1918|12|23|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Hamburg]], [[Weimar Republic]] <br>{{small|(now [[Germany]])}}
|death_date = {{nowrap|{{death date and age|2015|11|10|1918|12|23|df=y}}}}
|death_place = [[Hamburg]], [[Germany]]
|resting_place= [[Ohlsdorf Cemetery]]
|spouse = Loki Schmidt {{small|(1942–2010; her death)}}
|spouse = {{marriage|[[Loki Schmidt|Loki Glaser]]|1942|2010|end = died}}
|alma_mater = University of Hamburg
|partner = Ruth Loah (2012–2015)
|}}
|image children = 2
|alma_mater = [[University of Hamburg]]
| module = {{Infobox military person | embed=yes
|nickname=
|allegiance= {{flag|Nazi Germany}}
|branch= {{air force|Nazi Germany}}
|serviceyears= 1937–1945
|rank=[[Oberleutnant]] (d.R.)
|unit=[[1st Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)|1st Panzer Division]]
|commands=
|battles=[[Second World War]]
*[[Eastern Front (World War II)|Eastern Front]]
**[[Operation Barbarossa]]
***[[Siege of Leningrad]]
***[[Battle of Moscow]]
*[[Western Front (World War II)|Western Front]]
**[[Battle of the Bulge]]
|awards= [[Iron Cross|Iron Cross 2nd Class]]
|relations=
|signature = }}
|}}
 
'''Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt''' (23 December 1918 &ndash; 10 November 2015) was a [[German people|German]] politician. He was [[Chancellor]] of the [[Federal Republic of Germany]] from 1974 to 1982.
 
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After [[Willy Brandt]] gave up his job as ''Bundeskanzler'', Helmut Schmidt was elected as new chancellor.
 
In July 2013, it was discovered that Schmidt bought 38,000 [[cigarettes]] due to a fear of them being banned in [[Europe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3940/former_german_leader_helmut_schmidt_buys_38_000_menthol_cigarettes_to_avoid_eu_ban|title=Former German leader Helmut Schmidt buys 38,000 menthol cigarettes to avoid EU ban|publisher=The Commentator.com|accessdate=October 14, 2013|archive-date=September 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130918022529/http://www.thecommentator.com/article/3940/former_german_leader_helmut_schmidt_buys_38_000_menthol_cigarettes_to_avoid_eu_ban|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
Schmidt died in [[Hamburg]] on 10 November 2015 from complications of surgery he had to cure a [[blood clot]] in his left leftleg.<ref>{{cite web|title=German ex-Chancellor Schmidt dies at 96|url=httphttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34778565|publisher=BBC|accessdate=10 November 2015|date=10 November 2015}}</ref> He was 96 years old.<ref>{{cite web|title=Altkanzler Helmut Schmidt ist tot|url=https://www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/eilmeldung-293.html|publisher=Tagesschau|accessdate=10 November 2015|language=German|date=10 November 2015}}</ref>
 
==References==
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* [http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/SchmidtHelmut/ Biography at the German Historic Museum (German)]
* [http://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/nn_4976/Webs/BK/DE/Amt-und-Verfassung/Bundeskanzler-1949-2005/Helmut-Schmidt/helmut-schmidt.html Chancellor Site (German)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090209012308/http://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/nn_4976/Webs/BK/DE/Amt-und-Verfassung/Bundeskanzler-1949-2005/Helmut-Schmidt/helmut-schmidt.html |date=2009-02-09 }}
* [http://www.hsu-hh.de/hsu/index.php?action=setlanguage&language=en Helmut Schmidt University (English)]
* Talks:
** [http://www.weltpolitik.net/Sachgebiete/Europ%E4ische%20Union/Vertiefung/Erweiterung/Dokumente/Die%20Selbstbehauptung%20Europas%20im%20neuen%20Jahrhundert.html Die Selbstbehauptung Europas im neuen Jahrhundert (German, 2000)]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
** [http://www.zeit.de/online/2006/14/rede_schmidt Kröten und Paragrafenwahn (German, 2006)]
** [http://www.zeit.de/online/2006/37/schmidt-rede-china Schmidt's talk on the occasion of China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visiting Hamburg (English, 2006)]
** [http://openvault.wgbh.org/wapina/barcode48541schmidt_1/index.html/ Interview on nuclear strategy in Europe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070213182242/http://openvault.wgbh.org/wapina/barcode48541schmidt_1/index.html/ |date=2007-02-13 }} for the WGBH series, [[War and Peace in the Nuclear Age]]
** [http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/11944-1/Helmut+Schmidt.aspx ''Booknotes'' interview with Schmidt on ''Men and Powers'', 15 April 1990.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925132445/http://booknotes.org/Watch/11944-1/Helmut+Schmidt.aspx |date=25 September 2013 }}
***[https://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0394569946&id=ETIfAAAAMAAJ&q=Men+and+Powers:+A+political+Retrospective&dq=Men+and+Powers:+A+political+Retrospective&pgis=1 ''Men and Powers: A Political Retrospective''] on [[Google Books]].
 
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