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Helmut Schmidt

Pioneer of International Economic and Financial Cooperation

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Editors:
  1. Hartmut Soell

    1. Centre for European Cultural Studies / Department of History, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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  • Compact biography of Helmut Schmidt by his chief biographer (available in English for the first time)
  • Presents a selection of major texts on international economic and financial policy by German Chancellor
  • Helmut Schmidt as a policymaker pioneering international economic and financial cooperation (1972-2007)
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice (BRIEFSPIONEER, volume 20)

Part of the book sub series: Policymakers (BRIEFSPOLI)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  3. Helmut Schmidt’s Major Texts on International Economic and Financial Cooperation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-28
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    2. Speech in Nairobi: World Currency Conference, 25 September 1973

      • Helmut Schmidt
      Pages 29-32

    3. Washington Energy Conference, 11 February 1974 Statement by the German Federal Minister of Finance, Helmut Schmidt

      • Helmut Schmidt
      Pages 33-38

    4. The Energy Crisis: A Challenge for the Western World, Lecture at Roosevelt University, Chicago, 13 March 1974

      • Helmut Schmidt
      Pages 39-50

    5. Interview by James Reston (New York Times) with Helmut Schmidt

      • Helmut Schmidt
      Pages 51-54

    6. Report, Labor Party 1974

      • Helmut Schmidt
      Pages 55-60

    7. Address to the Council of Foreign Relations, New York, 6 December 1974

      • Helmut Schmidt
      Pages 61-71

    8. Helmut Schmidt: Private Memorandum on International Concertation of Economic Action, 30 July 1975

      • Helmut Schmidt
      Pages 73-75

    9. Speech in Rambouillet: World Economic Summit, 15 November 1975

      • Helmut Schmidt
      Pages 77-82

    10. The Case for More Intra-European Monetary Cooperation. Summary of Comments Made in Copenhagen, 7 April 1978 (Personal)

      • Helmut Schmidt
      Pages 83-87

    11. International Affairs Institute, Lagos, 27 June 1978

      • Helmut Schmidt
      Pages 89-96

    12. Interview of Jonathan Carr of Financial Times with Chancelor Helmut Schmidt (11 July 1978)

      • Helmut Schmidt
      Pages 97-103

    13. World Business Conference Finance and Trade in the 1980s: A Financial Times Conference Frankfurt, 14 February 1979

      • Helmut Schmidt
      Pages 105-114

    14. Speech of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Subsequent Discussion with the Advisory Committee of the Chase Manhattan Bank, 16 June 1980 in Bad Godesberg

      • Helmut Schmidt
      Pages 115-123

    15. The World Economy is Our Common Fate: Helmut Schmidt in Fortune, 27 July 1982

      • Helmut Schmidt
      Pages 125-134

    16. Helmut Schmidt: Facing One World—A Report by an Independent Group on Financial Flows to Developing Countries (Excerpt) 1990

      • Helmut Schmidt
      Pages 135-143
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About this book

On the occasion of the 95th birthday of Helmut Schmidt, West German Chancellor 1974–1982, his biographer Hartmut Soell, Professor of History at Heidelberg University and former member of the German Parliament (1980–1994), presents H. Schmidt as a Pioneer of International Economic and Financial Cooperation. Influenced by the catastrophes of the early 20th century (global economic crisis, dictatorship and war), Schmidt entered politics as a trained economist and was one of the most innovative policymakers from the 1960s to the 1980s. As minister of defense, economy and finance and as Chancellor he was able to implement many of his ideas for closer cooperation between Western industrial states on currency issues and energy policy during the 1970s. Together with French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing he launched the G7 summits in 1975 and his proposals for a European currency system (1978–79) paved the way for the European economic and currency union. As editor of Die Zeit, he would later become an influential commentator.

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  • Centre for European Cultural Studies / Department of History, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Hartmut Soell

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