Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View of the grave of Helmut and Hannelore Schmidt at the cemetery in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf. Markus Scholz/dpa The grave of former ...

First, we cannot help but admire a man who seemed to smoke cigarettes incessantly and yet lived until a month before his 97th birthday. Indeed, on the few occasions over the years when The Scrapbook ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt died on Tuesday aged 96 and leaders from Europe and the United States praised him as an architect of international cooperation and ...

On December 23, 2013, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will be 95 years old. As the second Social Democratic head of government in the Federal Republic of Germany, he shaped the country like ...

The Economist obituary about ex-chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who died November 10 at the age of 96, used these adjectives that often apply to type #8, the Asserter: imperious, rude, impatient, and brave ...

FARGO — On a recent afternoon, Forum reporter Helmut Schmidt stopped by the newsroom to be interviewed for a story about his imminent retirement after four decades in journalism. Before the interview, ...

The grave of former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt has had swastikas daubed on it in the Hamburg cemetery where he lies buried, police in the northern city said on Saturday. The vandalism was done ...

Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt died on Tuesday aged 96 and leaders from around Europe praised him as an architect of international cooperation and post-war European integration. Schmidt ...