@article{697143,
      recid = {697143},
      author = {Soell, Hartmut, and Schmidt, Helmut,},
      title = {Helmut Schmidt pioneer of international economic and  financial cooperation / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxvii, 162 pages) :},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/697143},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03868-1},
}