Schmidt, Helmut

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1918

Beruf
German politician

Überblick

	1940-1945 soldier in World War II
	studies economics; member of the SPD since 1946
	1947/48 Chairman of the Federation of German Socialist Students
	leader of the Hamburg Office for Economics and Traffic
	1953-1962 and 1965-1987 delegate of the SPD to the German Bundestag
	1961-1965 Inner Senator of Hamburg
	1967-1969 Chairman of the SPD fraction in the Bundestag
	1969-1972 Defense Minister, 1972 Minister of Economics and Finance
	1972-1974 Finance Minister
	1974-82 Federal Chancellor
	since 1983 co-publisher of the journal "Die Zeit"