Helmut Schmidt has died: We take another look at his most moving moments in memory of the Chancellor of the Heart.
Helmut Schmidt is a primeval German rock, he was so important for German history, for the German exterior effect and is always over and over again with his distinctive style.
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That's why we've gathered together our favorite, saddest and most poignant Helmut Schmidt moments.
Crisis Chancellor : "The responsibility of a politician is not abstract." Helmut Schmidt had to ask himself during his chancellorship again and again the question, what is my duty at this moment, my job - and he has shied away from anybody.
Guardian of Virtues: It was important to Helmut Schmidt that values and virtues should not be forgotten. "You have to cultivate the virtues again, not through theoretical instruction, but just by giving yourself examples and role models."
Volksheld: When Hamburg is hit by a devastating storm surge in 1962, Schmidt helps quickly and without regard to the constitution, and on his own initiative he took the Bundeswehr to help as interior senator. Schmidt said in an interview with Spiegel Online 2008: "This was about human lives. There were thousands sitting on the roofs of their weekend shelters. If they did not drown, they would freeze (...), so I did not hesitate a second. "
Faith and hope: Helmut Schmidt was not a man of great emotions, but with much faith in the mind: "I do not believe in God. I believe in the ratio. And I believe in the conscience of the individual. "
Chancellor of the Heart: Controversial during his tenure, popular until the end: In 2013, he was elected in a survey of the ZEIT the most important chancellor - even before Konrad Adenauer and Willy Brandt.
Democrat: "Democracy lives from compromise. Whoever can not make compromises is not useful for democracy. "
Honest to the limit of pain: "I dislike a point in Berlin. The gigantomania of the new Federal Chancellery, the appealing new members building and the all-too-planned Holocaust memorial, "he explained in 2000 during a visit to the capital.
Idealist: "In the basic questions you have to be naive. And I believe that the problems of the world and humanity without idealism can not be solved. "(Quote from the book Memories and Reflections).
Confessing chain smoker: In the ZEIT there was even a separate column with the title "On a cigarette length with Helmut Schmidt". The avowed lover of the Glimmstengel did not ban smoking until the end and explained in his column: "Seriously, politicians should be a role model in your field, but not in all fields of human life.
About his wife Loki: Helmut Schmidt responded in his great interview with Giovanni di Lorenzo to the question of whether he would still sometimes speak with his late wife Loki rationally: "No, because she does not answer yes." And then, quite human: "But sometimes I call her half asleep in the morning, until I understand that she is no longer there."
Free muzzle: "I'm the man with the quick muzzle, " Helmut Schmidt introduced himself in his first term as a budget member - and it was precisely for this quick muzzle he remained known to the end.
We say: Thank you, Helmut Schmidt - Thanks for everything ...
