Helmut Schmidt

Born

December 23, 1918

Died

November 10, 2015 (aged 96)

Known as

politician, economist, civil servant, non-fiction writer, writer, statesperson

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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