In the 1980 elections he ran against the incumbent Helmut Schmidt of the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ), but lost thereafter, as the SPD and the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) managed to secure an absolute majority together, forming a Social-liberal coalition.

Helmut Schmidt, left, with French President Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing ( 1977 )

He was replaced by Helmut Schmidt ( b. 1918 ), of the SPD, who served as Chancellor in 1974 – 1982.

In the SPD-FDP coalition, he helped shape Brandt's policy of deescalation with the communist East, commonly known as Ostpolitik, which was continued under Helmut Schmidt after Brandt's resignation in 1974.

Still, Genscher was one of the FDP's driving forces when, in 1982, the party switched sides from its coalition with the SPD to support the CDU / CSU in their Constructive Vote of No Confidence to have Helmut Schmidt replaced with Helmut Kohl as Chancellor.

While not gaining complete parity, there has been solid political consensus since the Helmut Schmidt social democrat government introduced the measure in 1976.

On 24 April 1975, the West German embassy in Stockholm was seized by members of the RAF ; two of the hostages were murdered as the German government under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt refused to give in to their demands.

A crisis committee was formed in Bonn, headed by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, which, instead of acceding, resolved to employ delaying tactics to give the police time to discover Schleyer's location.

* Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ( West Germany )

** Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany

** Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.

His good relations with Western politicians, especially France's Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing and West Germany's Helmut Schmidt, were a catalyst for his receiving western aid and loans.

However they were kept out of government by the centre-left cabinet formed by the Social Democratic Party of Germany and Free Democratic Party ( Germany ), led by Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt.

However, Kohl has retreated from public life to a far greater extent than his predecessor Helmut Schmidt.

Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (; born 23 December 1918 ) is a German Social Democratic politician who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982.

Helmut Schmidt was born in Hamburg in 1918, the only son of two teachers.

This was confirmed publicly by Helmut Schmidt in 1984, after Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing revealed the fact to journalists, apparently with Schmidt's assent.

* Helmut Schmidt ( SPD ) – Chancellor

* Helmut Schmidt ( SPD ) – Chancellor

* Helmut Schmidt ( SPD ) – Chancellor

Helmut Schmidt ( SPD ) succeeds Genscher as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Contrary to the current line of his party, Helmut Schmidt is a determined opponent of Turkey's entry into the EU.

His circle also includes former U. S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who is on record as stating that he wishes to predecease Helmut Schmidt, because he would not wish to live in a world without Schmidt.

A request by his co-worker Helmut Schreyer — who had helped Zuse build the Z3 prototype in 1938 — for government funding for an electronic successor to the Z3 was denied as " strategically unimportant ".

She was a passenger in a car that raised the suspicions of German troops at an unexpected roadblock that had been set up to find Sturmbannführer Helmut Kämpfe of the Das Reich Division, who had been captured by the local resistance.

Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany had decided to visit Moscow to negotiate German reunification, signalling to Powell that the last gasp of American power in Europe to be replaced by a new balance of power not resting on military force but on the " recognition of the restraints which the ultimate certainty of failure places upon the ambitions of the respective national states.

They had two children: Helmut Walter ( 26 June 1944 – February 1945, died of meningitis ), and Susanne ( b. 1947 ), who works in London for Bloomberg Television.

The initiative claimed that Helmut Schmidt had been flagrantly ignoring laws " for decades ".

According to Helmut Schmidt, Willy Brandt's domestic reform programme had accomplished more than any previous programme for a comparable period.

Helmut Kohl presided over 17 ministers at the start of his fourth term in 1994 ; the 2002 cabinet, the second of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, had 13 ministers and the Angela Merkel cabinet as of 22 November 2005 has 15.

Hartwich asserts that while the East undoubtedly improved economically, it was " at a much slower pace than Chancellor Helmut Kohl had predicted ".

The 2012 Festival, had Oliver Knussen as Artist in Residence, and the typically eclectic progamme included new productions by Netia Jones of Knussen ’ s Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop !, a concert series exploring the work of Helmut Lachenmann, recitals by Menahem Pressler, Ian Bostridge, Peter Serkin, Miklós Perényi, Dezsö Ránki and the Arditti and Keller Quartets, the CBSO with the UK premiere of a work by Elliott Carter, as well as dramatised performances with film at the Leiston Long Shop Museum, the complete screening with live accompaniment of Britten ’ s 1930s film scores, a promenade performance of John Cage ’ s Song Books in the Hoffmann Building under the banner of # Faster than Sound, and open-air community events on Aldeburgh Beach.

East German Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière had proposed that Becher's lyrics be added to the united German anthem, but this was rejected by his West German counterpart, Helmut Kohl.

In 2009, June Browne Newton conceptualized a tribute exhibition to Helmut based around three photographers who had trained extensively under Helmut: Mark Arbeit, Just Loomis, and George Holz.

In 1964, Helmut Schön took over as coach, replacing Herberger who had been in office for 28 years.

In fact, they had defended Ervin Eisch, Lothar Fischer, Dieter Kunzelmann, Renee Nele, Heimrad Prem, Gretel Stadler, Helmut Sturm and Hand-Peter Zimmer who had been excluded on February 10, 1962.

Do Not Lean Out, Nash, with Ansgar Elde and Jacqueline de Jong, stated that although there may be grounds to criticise the Spur group ( Ervin Eisch, Lothar Fischer, Dieter Kunzelmann, Renee Nele, Heimrad Prem, Gretel Stadler, Helmut Sturm and Hand-Peter Zimmer ), the way they had been expelled, and the SI itself, were totalitarian.

But many, if not most, observers at the time believed that the CDU had concluded that Helmut Schmidt's SPD was likely unbeatable in 1980, and felt that they had nothing to lose in running Strauss.

After German reunification, he was appointed Minister for Special Affairs in the CDU government of Helmut Kohl, until his resignation on December 17, 1990 amid rumors that he had worked for the East German Stasi.

Among its leading members were theatrical producer Adam Kuckhoff and his wife Greta, pianist Helmut Roloff, secretary Ilse Stöbe, diplomat Rudolf von Scheliha, author Günther Weisenborn, potter Cato Bontjes van Beek, Horst Heilmann ( an officer in the Cipher Section of OKH ), and photojournalist John Graudenz ( who had been expelled from the USSR for reporting on the Soviet famine of 1932 – 1933 ).

It was only upon hearing on the radio on March 20 that " the stateless Jew, Helmut Hirsch ," had been condemned to death that his family learned what had become of him after he left home three months earlier.