Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. He was the longest lived
Schmidt in 1977
Schmidt's official Bundestag portrait, 1953
Schmidt, Erich Honecker, Gerald Ford and Bruno Kreisky in 1975 in Helsinki
U.S. president Jimmy Carter and Schmidt in July 1977
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl was a German politician who served as chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998. He was leader of the Christian Democratic Union from 1973 to 1998 and oversaw the end of the Co
Helmut Schmidt
…of Foreign Affairs. On 1 October 1982, the FDP supported a CDU-proposed constructive vote of no confidence, ousting Schmidt in favour of CDU chairman Helmut Kohl as the new chancellor. This was the only time in the history of the Federal Republic that a chancellor was removed from office in this way. Although…
Kohl as the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate state party chairman
Kohl at the CDU national party convention in Hamburg, 1973