Helmut Schmidt
Chancellor of West Germany (1974–1982)
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West German chancellor from 1974 to 1982 who outlived every other chancellor in German history by decades. Schmidt became a fixture of Cold War politics and stayed visible long into his 90s.
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Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. He was the longest lived chancellor in German history and had the longest post-chancellorship, at over 33 years.
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