Helmut Schmidt

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2. On Chancellor Helmut Schmidt

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   2. A Short Biography of Helmut Schmidt by Hartmut Soell

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   3. Major Books by Helmut Schmidt and About Him as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Compiled by Hartmut Soell

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3. Helmut Schmidt’s Major Texts on International Economic and Financial Cooperation

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   2. Speech in Nairobi: World Currency Conference, 25 September 1973

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   3. Washington Energy Conference, 11 February 1974 Statement by the German Federal Minister of Finance, Helmut Schmidt

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      Pages 33-38

   4. The Energy Crisis: A Challenge for the Western World, Lecture at Roosevelt University, Chicago, 13 March 1974

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      Pages 39-50

   5. Interview by James Reston (New York Times) with Helmut Schmidt

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      Pages 51-54

   6. Report, Labor Party 1974

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      Pages 55-60

   7. Address to the Council of Foreign Relations, New York, 6 December 1974

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      Pages 61-71

   8. Helmut Schmidt: Private Memorandum on International Concertation of Economic Action, 30 July 1975

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      Pages 73-75

   9. Speech in Rambouillet: World Economic Summit, 15 November 1975

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      Pages 77-82

   10. The Case for More Intra-European Monetary Cooperation. Summary of Comments Made in Copenhagen, 7 April 1978 (Personal)

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       Pages 83-87

   11. International Affairs Institute, Lagos, 27 June 1978

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       Pages 89-96

   12. Interview of Jonathan Carr of Financial Times with Chancelor Helmut Schmidt (11 July 1978)

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       Pages 97-103

   13. World Business Conference Finance and Trade in the 1980s: A Financial Times Conference Frankfurt, 14 February 1979

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       Pages 105-114

   14. Speech of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Subsequent Discussion with the Advisory Committee of the Chase Manhattan Bank, 16 June 1980 in Bad Godesberg

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       Pages 115-123

   15. The World Economy is Our Common Fate: Helmut Schmidt in Fortune, 27 July 1982

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       Pages 125-134

   16. Helmut Schmidt: Facing One World—A Report by an Independent Group on Financial Flows to Developing Countries (Excerpt) 1990

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       Pages 135-143

On the occasion of the 95th birthday of Helmut Schmidt, West German Chancellor 1974–1982, his biographer Hartmut Soell, Professor of History at Heidelberg University and former member of the German Parliament (1980–1994), presents H. Schmidt as a Pioneer of International Economic and Financial Cooperation. Influenced by the catastrophes of the early 20th century (global economic crisis, dictatorship and war), Schmidt entered politics as a trained economist and was one of the most innovative policymakers from the 1960s to the 1980s. As minister of defense, economy and finance and as Chancellor he was able to implement many of his ideas for closer cooperation between Western industrial states on currency issues and energy policy during the 1970s. Together with French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing he launched the G7 summits in 1975 and his proposals for a European currency system (1978–79) paved the way for the European economic and currency union. As editor of Die Zeit, he would later become an influential commentator.

• Economic and Financial Cooperation
• European Integration
• German Chancellor (1974-1982)
• Global Economic Interdependence
• North-South Dialogue

• Centre for European Cultural Studies / Department of History, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  Hartmut Soell

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