Hannelore "Loki" Schmidt (; 3 March 1919 – 21 October 2010) was a German teacher and

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. She was the wife of

Helmut Schmidt Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (; 23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. He was the longest ...

, who was the

Chancellor of Germany The chancellor of Germany, officially the federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, is the head of the federal Cabinet of Germany, government of Germany. The chancellor is the chief executive of the Federal Government of Germany, ...

from 1974 to 1982.

Life and work

Hannelore Glaser was born in 1919 in

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. She studied four semesters of education. After graduation she worked as a school teacher continuously from 1940 until 1972 (teaching elementary school, Volksschule and Realschule). She married Helmut Schmidt in 1942. He became a politician who rose in 1974 to become Chancellor of West Germany. In 1976, Loki Schmidt founded the ''Stiftung zum Schutze gefährdeter Pflanzen'' (engl.: foundation for the protection of endangered plants), which later became the ''Stiftung Naturschutz Hamburg und Stiftung zum Schutze gefährdeter Pflanzen'' (engl.: nature conservancy foundation Hamburg for the protection of endangered plants). In 1980, she established the Flower of the Year campaign, a public awareness campaign for the protection of endangered wildflowers in Germany. For this work she was awarded the title Professor by the University of Hamburg. She was an honorary doctor of the Russian Academy of Science in

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and the

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. The new botanical garden in Hamburg was renamed after her to " Loki-Schmidt-Garten" in 2012. She was buried in the

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Legacy

The ''Puya loki-schmidtiae'', the ''

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'' ''loki-schmidtiae'' and the scorpion '' Tityus lokiae'' are named in her honour.

Family

Loki and Helmut Schmidt married on 27 June 1942; they had a son (who died as an infant) and a daughter.

Later years

In 2009, she was awarded the honorary citizen award (Ehrenbürgerschaft)—the highest decoration—of Hamburg. She died during the night of 20/21 October 2010, aged 91, at her home in Langenhorn, after 68 years of marriage to Helmut Schmidt.

Publications

*''Schützt die Natur: Impressionen aus unserer Heimat''. Herder Verlag, 1979, . *H.-U. Reyer, W. Migongo-Buke und L. Schmidt: ''Field Studies and Experiments on Distribution and Foraging of Pied and Malachite Kingfishers at Lake Nakuru (Kenya)''. In: ''Journal of Animal Ecology'', Band 57, 1988, S. 595–610
Zusammenfassung
. *W. Barthlott, S. Porembski, M. Kluge, J. Hopke und L. Schmidt: ''Selenicereus wittii (Cactaceae). An epiphyte adapted to Amazonian Igapó inundation forests''. In: ''Plant Systematics and Evolution'', Band 206, 1997, S. 175–185, . *''Die Botanischen Gärten in Deutschland''. Verlag Hoffmann und Campe, 1997, . *''Die Blumen des Jahres''. Verlag Hoffmann und Campe, 2003, . *P. Parolin, J. Adis, M. F. da Silva, I. L. do Amaral, L. Schmidt und M. T. F. Piedade: ''Floristic composition of a floodplain forest in the Anavilhanas archipelago, Brazilian Amazonia''. In: '' Amazoniana'', Band 17 (3/4), 2003, S. 399–411
Abstract
. *''Loki: Hannelore Schmidt erzählt aus ihrem Leben''. Verlag Hoffmann und Campe, 2003, . *''Mein Leben für die Schule''. 2005, *''Erzähl doch mal von früher: Loki Schmidt im Gespräch mit Reinhold Beckmann''. Verlag Hoffman und Campe, 2008, .

References

External links

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Stiftung Naturschutz Hamburg
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