Helmut Schmidt, German statesman, 1918-2015

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Before, during and after his eight-year chancellorship, Schmidt devoted considerable energy to these precepts and, to a large degree, he succeeded in living up to them.
59% : His view was that the shadow of Hitler and Auschwitz obliged Germany to promote European integration and international stability.
48% : However, strains in his party and within the coalition over defence, nuclear power and economics were coming increasingly to the surface as the economy sagged after the increase in international oil prices in 1979.
45% : He remained just about the only German politician with the gravitas to criticise the Bundesbank's monetary policy, which he claimed was blocking the path to monetary union with the EU.

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