Helmut Schmidt
| Helmut Schmidt link (Politician) | |
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| Born | Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt 1918-12-23 Hamburg, Germany |
| Died | 10 November 2015 |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
| Children | 2 |
| Spouse | Loki Schmidt |
| Party | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
German politician whose government was undermined by Le Cercle | |
Helmut Schmidt was a German politician. His coalition fell apart in 1982 after what Scott Thompson writes was "a heavy-handed wrecking job" planned at Le Cercle.
Activities
Helmut Schmidt co-founded Atlantik-Brücke.Template:Cn
Opposition
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“Participants at Le Cercle meetings report that a major issue has been how to bring about the demise of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government. This issue dominated the last biannual meeting of Le Cercle that was hosted by the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the official think tank of opposition leader Franz Josef Strauss's Christian Social Union, in Munich last May. Le Cercle's participants have been able to carry out an inside-outside job to destroy the Schmidt coalition government since then. While Strauss's CSU carried out a heavy-handed wrecking job that included an implicit alliance with the Strasserite fascist Green Party, sources report that Helmut Sonnenfeldt and Henry Kissinger took the inside track since the ouster of Secretary of State Alexander Haig, threatening, cajoling, and misleading Schmidt into his disastrous pragmatic political course.”
Scott Thompson (1982) [1]