“a special man whose political courage has moved many.”
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Helmut Schmidt
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt 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. He was the longest lived chancellor in German history and had the longest post-chancellorship, at over 33 years.
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Born 23 December 1918 · Died 10 November 2015 · Q2516
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“finally having to change addresses”
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Mshale: Helmut Schmidt NDR Talkshow Classics 1986 Eose Stock (FTdb49JRyi)
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Mshale: Altbundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt NDR Talkshow Valve Steam Machine Queue System (22rgkb5taL)
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Die Presse: Helmut Schmidt
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"The first world war began in an incredibly complex, around-the-houses way
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Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,047 times.
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Published “IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era” in Molecular Biology and Evolution — cited 16,547 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,011 times.
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After Minister of Defence Ursula von der Leyen issued an order to remove Wehrmacht memorabilia from barracks and other institutions of the Bundeswehr, a photo of the young Lieutenant Helmut Schmidt in Wehrmacht uniform w
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By the German Bundestag as one of six non-partisan foundations commemorating politicians
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Published “Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger” in Physical Review Letters — cited 11,729 times.
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20156 items
FOCUS: Helmut Schmidt ist tot
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Died 2015-11-10.
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“It seems to me that the German people can - pointedly - tolerate 5 percent price increase better than 5 percent unemployment.”
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“What troubles me is that we will see in Germany no approximation of the East German income to the West German income anymore, because productivity stays so far behind.”
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Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,839 times.
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“It is an irony of history that the public sector union, my union, in which I am a member for over 50 years, that imagines that the public service should be the pacemaker in the wage increase. One must be crazy.”
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Awarded Ewald von Kleist Prize (2014).
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“Europe, the Americans and also Russia are behaving in a way that Christopher Clark described in his book The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 that”
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Published “IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies” in Molecular Biology and Evolution — cited 24,607 times.
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And this year, it's quite clearly a case of the breach of the peace by just one power
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Awarded Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize (2012).
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Awarded Eric M. Warburg Award (2012).
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Schmidt made a pilgrimage to the Trudeau family vault in St-Rémi-de-Napierville Cemetery, accompanied by Jean Chrétien and Tom Axworthy
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Awarded Point Alpha Prize (2010).
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“Immigration from foreign civilisations creates more problems than it can bring us in terms of benefits on the labour market. Immigration from Europe is no problem; the problem starts from somewhat more eastern regions. These are different cultures, not because of their different genes or ancestry, but because of the way they were raised.”
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Published “A method and server for predicting damaging missense mutations” in Nature Methods — cited 11,760 times.
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Awarded Leipzig International Mendelssohn Prize (2009).
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Awarded Osgar (2008).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Marburg (2007).
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Awarded Global Economy Prize (2007).
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Schmidt described the climate debate as "hysterically overheated"
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DER SPIEGEL: Türkischer EU-Beitritt Helmut Schmidt lobt Merkels Position
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Awarded Oswald-von-Nell-Breuning Award (2005).
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Spoke out against attempts to remedy Germany's aging population with more immigration: "Immigration of people from East of Anatolia or from Subsaharan Africa does not solve the problem, it only creates a much bigger p
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Awarded honorary doctorate presented by Helmut Schmidt University (2003).
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The university of Germany's federal armed forces in Hamburg was renamed Helmut Schmidt University – University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg in 2003, in honour of the politician who, as minister of defence – had in
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Awarded honorary citizen of Schleswig-Holstein (1998).
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Published “Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant” in The Astronomical Journal — cited 16,307 times.
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Awarded honorary citizenship presented by Güstrow (1995).
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Published “General atomic and molecular electronic structure system” in Journal of Computational Chemistry — cited 19,146 times.
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Schmidt joined Eschenbach, Frantz, Gerhard Oppitz and the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra in Deutsche Grammophon's recording of Bach's Concerto in A minor for four harpsichords, BWV 1065
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Awarded honorary citizen of Berlin (1989).
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Won Four Freedoms Award – Freedom Medal (1988).
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19863 items
Published “Multiple emitter location and signal parameter estimation” in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation — cited 12,154 times.
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Was a leading proponent of the European monetary union and a European Central Bank
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After clashing with the SPD's left wing, which opposed him on defence and economic issues
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Released album “Klavierkonzerte: BWV 1060, 1061, 1063, 1065”.
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After Valéry Giscard d'Estaing revealed the fact to journalists, apparently with Schmidt's assent
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Awarded honorary citizen of Hamburg (1983).
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Awarded honorary citizenship presented by Bremerhaven (1983).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Bonn (1983).
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1983–1987).
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Released album “The Concertos for Two & Three Pianos”.
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With pianists Eschenbach and Justus Frantz for EMI Records (CDC 7 47473 2)
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Along with his friend Gerald Ford, he co-founded the annual AEI World Forum
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Career landmark: Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs (1982–1982).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University (1981).
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A legal aid system was established to facilitate access to courts of law
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And 1981 the real value of pensions fell by 1
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1980–1983).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (1979).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Paul Cézanne University (1979).
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DM 219 million was set aside for about 80,000 dwellings under the modernisation programme for dwellings worthy of preservation run jointly by the Federal authorities and the individual Länder (50% of this money was earma
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The Federal Minister for Education and Science made funds available for a new further education establishment to train instructors
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Awarded Theodor Heuss Award (1978).
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Helped set up the European Monetary System (EMS)
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To open up certain skilled industrial and technical occupations to them
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For the promotion of sports and physical education
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In cases of particular financial burden due to children, while a substantial increase in the child allowance was made in 1979
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The two discussed strategies for the upcoming Canadian federal election, and Schmidt gave him advice on economic policy
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A law was introduced which enabled married women to enter employment without the permission of their husbands, while prison reforms guaranteed inmates access to courts for any violations of their rights, limited sentence
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An "investment programme for the future" was decided upon by the Schmidt Administration, which provided DM 16 thousand million for the improvement of the transport system, an efficient and ecological energy supply, provi
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While a constitutional reform of 1981 increased federal powers in health and education
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And the existing provisions were made more flexible in order to allow the children of migrant workers who had entered the Federal Republic of Germany in 1975/1976 access to employment
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DM 8 million was made available by the federal government to welfare bodies to build and modernise holiday homes for families
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And 1980, but his coalition fell apart in 1982 with the switch by his coalition allies, the Free Democratic Party
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A new declaration of social rights was made, and in 1979, an Act was passed which lowered the pensionable age for severely disabled persons to 61 years, and to 60 years as from 1980
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The Young Persons (Protection of Employment) Act was passed, which forbade the employment of children and young persons required to attend full-time education, with minor exceptions
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1976–1980).
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A provisional law was introduced to boost the number of apprentices, which reduced the number of young people out of work
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Awarded Financial Times Person of the Year (1975).
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For family planning and maternity consultations, whilst a constant attendance allowance was increased
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The allowable duration of unemployment benefit payment was extended to twenty-four months during periods of general recession
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Tax allowances were replaced by child benefits, while payment for the first child was introduced
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Was a signatory of the Helsinki Accords to create the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the precursor of today's OSCE
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Career landmark: Federal Chancellor of Germany (1974–1982).
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Awarded Orden wider den tierischen Ernst (1972).
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Career landmark: Federal Minister of Finance (1972–1974).
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Career landmark: Minister of Economic Affairs (1972–1972).
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1972–1976).
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1969–1972).
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Career landmark: Federal Minister of Defence (1969–1972).
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Was elected deputy party chairman, a post that he held until 1983
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After the formation of the Grand Coalition between the SPD and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he became chairman of the Social Democratic parliamentary party, a post he held until the elections of 1969
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Career landmark: substitute member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (1966–1968).
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19652 items
Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1965–1969).
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1965–1987).
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Gave up his seat in parliament to concentrate on his tasks in Hamburg
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1961–1962).
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Career landmark: Senator of the Interior (1961–1965).
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1958–1961).
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Joined the national board of the SPD (Bundesvorstand), and campaigned against nuclear weapons and the equipping of the Bundeswehr with such devices
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Schmidt was promoted to Hauptmann of the Bundeswehr reserve
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1957–1961).
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Career landmark: member of the German Bundestag (1953–1957).
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And in 1957 he became a member of the SPD parliamentary party executive
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Under Karl Schiller, he was a senior figure heading up the Behörde für Wirtschaft und Verkehr (the Hamburg State Ministry for Economy and Transport)
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Studied at University of Hamburg, political economist (1949).
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And from 1947 to 1948 was the leader of the Socialist German Student League, the student organisation of the SPD
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His superiors mentioned that Schmidt "stands the ground of national socialist ideology, knowing that he must pass it on
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Awarded Iron Cross (1939), 2nd class (1941).
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(including the Siege of Leningrad), he returned to Germany in 1942 to work as a trainer and advisor at the Ministry of Aviation
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Studied at Lichtwarkschule (1937).
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Born 1918-12-23.
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“s foreign relations. Schmidt was the first world leader to call upon newly elected French president François Mitterrand, who visited Bonn in July 1981. The two found themselves in”
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That's very much worth reading, as the beginning of World War I: like sleepwalkers
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Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford.
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Awarded honorary doctorate of Haifa University.
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Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge.
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Awarded Ground Assault Badge of the Luftwaffe without Number.
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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Awarded Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Studied at Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory.
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