https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Helmut Schmidt was almost as famous for the cigarette that he permanently held to his mouth as for his time as Germany’s leader. Now you have the chance to buy something that says Schmidt like few other objects. https://www.thelocal.de/20170825/chain-smoking-ex-chancellors-golden-cigarette-case-put-up-for-auction Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:49:33 +0200 chain-smoking-ex-chancellors-golden-cigarette-case-put-up-for-auction Hamburg's airport is set to be renamed Helmut Schmidt Airport next year, in honour of the former German chancellor who died in November aged 96. https://www.thelocal.de/20151218/hamburg-plans-helmut-schmidt-airport-for-2016 Fri, 18 Dec 2015 13:26:09 +0100 hamburg-plans-helmut-schmidt-airport-for-2016 Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has died at home in Hamburg aged 96, his doctors told journalists on Tuesday afternoon. https://www.thelocal.de/20151110/germanys-oldest-former-chancellor-dies Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:04:51 +0100 germanys-oldest-former-chancellor-dies Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is very ill, his doctors confirmed on Monday, and his family have raced to his side to be with him in what may be his final days. https://www.thelocal.de/20151110/former-chancellors-life-hangs-in-balance Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:50:38 +0100 former-chancellors-life-hangs-in-balance Ex-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, 96, has given up his legendary habit of smoking, after an operation for what is popularly known as "smoker's leg" left him in intensive care. https://www.thelocal.de/20150911/germany-most-famous-smoker-goes-cold-turkey Fri, 11 Sep 2015 10:47:04 +0200 germany-most-famous-smoker-goes-cold-turkey Helmut Schmidt, German Chancellor in the 1970s and early 1980s, has been taken into intensive care at a Hamburg hospital after suffering from a vascular obstruction in his right leg. https://www.thelocal.de/20150902/ex-chancellor-schmidt-taken-to-hospital Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:17:44 +0200 ex-chancellor-schmidt-taken-to-hospital Famous for his love of smoking, popular German ex-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt apparently has 38,000 menthol cigarettes stashed in his house. He is, a top politician let slip on Tuesday, scared the EU will ban them. https://www.thelocal.de/20130709/50767 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 17:15:00 +0200 50767 Former chancellor and German political sage Helmut Schmidt gave his successor Angela Merkel a damning end-of-year report for her European policy on Thursday, saying it was the opinion of an "age-old man." https://www.thelocal.de/20121227/46999 Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:23:00 +0100 46999 Gerhard Schröder has seven publicly funded, chauffeur-driven vehicles at his disposal, despite his highly-paid private work. https://www.thelocal.de/20121112/46109 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:45:00 +0100 46109 Helmut Schmidt, ex-chancellor and sacred cow of German political punditry, has defended the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. Casualty estimates were "wildly exaggerated" and the Chinese army was defending itself, he said. https://www.thelocal.de/20120913/44953 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:44:00 +0200 44953 Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, 93, has taken to the TV to talk about the stability of the euro, the debt crisis - and his love life. https://www.thelocal.de/20120804/44159 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 11:00:00 +0200 44159 Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has blasted as “foolish” the United States’ pursuit of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. https://www.thelocal.de/20101221/31947 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:26:00 +0100 31947 Hannelore Schmidt, wife and childhood sweetheart of former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, has died aged 91, his office said Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20101021/30673 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:46:00 +0200 30673 A 30-year-old woman has been arrested for pestering former chancellor Helmut Schmidt after she repeatedly called to his house professing her love for him. https://www.thelocal.de/20080501/11639 Thu, 01 May 2008 14:50:00 +0200 11639