Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who guided West Germany through economic turbulence and Cold War tension in the 1970s and early 1980s, has died. He was 96.

BERLIN — Helmut Schmidt, the chancellor who guided West Germany through economic turbulence and Cold War tensions, died Tuesday. He was 96. German weekly Die Zeit, of which Schmidt was a co ...

Helmut Schmidt, the former West German chancellor whose talent, determination and outspokenness helped complete the transformation of his country from a subdued and still recovering post-World War ...

Helmut Schmidt, Former German Chancellor Who Paved the Way For the Euro, Dies. Published Nov 10, 2015 at 10:20 PM EST Updated Apr 30, 2016 at 11:16 PM EDT.

Schmidt and Loki, the childhood sweetheart he married in 1942, had one daughter, Susanne. Their first child, a son named Helmut Walter, died in 1945 when he was only a few months old. Loki Schmidt ...

Helmut Schmidt, the former West German Chancellor, has died at age 96. He's seen here with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at a 1979 news conference in London.

Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt died Tuesday at the age of 96. Here’s an interview conducted with him in 2013. HAMBURG, Germany (MarketWatch) — Helmut Schmidt, West German chancellor ...

BERLIN – A timeline of the career of Helmut Schmidt: — Dec. 23, 1918: Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt born in Hamburg, Germany. — 1939-1945: Serves periodically as a soldier during World ...

On-Air Smoking by Ex-German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Leads to Complaints. Anti-Smoking group condemns German public TV for letting the 92-year-old politician puff throughout his interview.

Helmut Schmidt, the former West German chancellor who died Tuesday at 96, was for decades one of the country’s most popular politicians.