Loki Schmidt

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Hannelore "Loki" Schmidt , née Glaser (born March 3, 1919 in Hamburg ; † October 21, 2010 ibid), was the wife of the former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt , who, through her passion for biology and nature, also became a botanist , natural and Plant protection activist. So she was noticed in public well beyond the term of office of her husband. She found recognition in this area as an author and with the institutions she initiated. She worked as a teacher for more than 30 years.

Life

Born in the working class district of Hammerbrook , Hannelore grew up in modest circumstances with her sister Linde and brother Christoph. In 1929 the family moved into a cooperative apartment in Hamburg-Horn . Her father Hermann Glaser was a company electrician at a shipyard . When he became unemployed in 1931, mother Gertrud began working as a seamstress. As a young child, she nicknamed herself " Loki ". From 1925 she attended the reform-oriented Burgstrasse School , from 1929 the musically influenced, also reform-oriented Lichtwark School in Hamburg and met her future husband Helmut Schmidt at this coeducational high school, with whom she attended the same class from the start. She also smoked her first cigarettes with him at this time, which both remained trademarks of both of them into old age. The class teacher specializing in biology was Ida Eberhardt , who was dismissed in 1935 because she had spoken out against the posting of the inflammatory pamphlet Der Stürmer in the Lichtwark School. Your temporary German teacher Erna Stahl was part of the environment of the White Rose Hamburg . After graduating from high school, which she passed at the convent school, since the coeducation at the Lichtwark school had been canceled, Loki Glaser had to do the Reich Labor Service in 1937 . Her desire to study biology failed because of the tuition fees, whereupon she studied pedagogy for the teaching post for elementary schools, which she completed after four semesters in 1940.

After the return of Helmut Schmidt used as an officer of the Wehrmacht on the eastern front followed her engagement Easter 1942 the marriage on June 27, 1942 and in the village Hambergen the church wedding on July 1st. The marriage had two children. Son Helmut Walter (born June 26, 1944) died before his first birthday on February 19, 1945 in Bernau. Her daughter Susanne was born in Hamburg in May 1947 and now lives in England with a doctorate in economics and business journalist. Before and after the birth of her daughter, Loki Schmidt suffered a total of six miscarriages. After her husband was released from captivity in 1945, he studied political science and economics until 1949 before he took up employment with the Hamburg Economic and Transport Authority . During this time, Loki Schmidt took care of the family alone.

From 1940 to 1972 Loki Schmidt worked as a people - primary and secondary school teacher .

To accompany her husband during his tenure as Federal Chancellor (USA, 1977)
Loki Schmidt (1978)
Loki Schmidt in the backdrop of the 1980 Chancellor Summer Party

Between 1974 and 1982 Loki Schmidt performed protocol duties as the wife of the Federal Chancellor and was particularly committed to plant and nature conservation. After the end of the chancellorship, she stepped up her commitment to endangered plants and was elected to the deputation of the authority for district affairs, nature conservation and environmental design in Hamburg. Occasionally she also commented on social issues such as school policy. For years she has accompanied research trips by scientists, mostly of the Max Planck Society , at her own expense , for example to Lake Nakuru in Kenya, the Galapagos Islands , Ecuador , Malaysia , North Borneo or Brazil . Even after this time until the 1990s, she undertook extensive trips abroad to study the flora and fauna. She was considered a supporter of Charles Darwin .

In 1976 she had already founded the Board of Trustees for the Protection of Endangered Plants , which was transferred to a foundation in 1979. This foundation merged with the Nature Conservation Foundation Hamburg (founded in 1985/1986 with significant participation of the then President of the Hamburg Environmental Authority and today Foundation Council Chairman Senator ret. Wolfgang Curilla ) for Nature Conservation Foundation Hamburg and Stiftung Loki Schmidt (short: Foundation for Nature and plants , today Loki Schmidt Foundation ). The foundation has been awarding the "Loki Schmidt silver plant" since 1977. The environmental prize, which is given to people who care about nature conservation, was based on an idea by Kurt A. Körber and Loki Schmidt and was also awarded by them on the recommendation of the foundation. In addition, the foundation has also been selecting and presenting the flower of the year since 1980 .

Since the 1970s she has also campaigned for the Botanical Garden in Hamburg and its task of researching and conserving biological diversity. As part of her commitment to botanical gardens, she initiated the international gardener exchange in 1986, which began with a trip she financed by gardeners from the Hamburg Botanical Garden to plant the first tropical greenhouse in Israel, initially overseen by the Nature and Plants Foundation and later by the Foundation International gardener exchange was taken over.

For an illustrated book published in 1997, The Botanical Gardens in Germany with the first complete overview of the Botanical Gardens in Germany and their collections, she researched for two years and covered 26,000 kilometers.

In 2005 she commented on education policy in My Life for School . Three years later, the book Tell me from the past was published and she became a bestselling author with her memoirs at the age of 90 . Her book On the red carpet and firmly on earth was published in October 2010 .

Loki Schmidt fell in late September 2010 and broke one foot. After an operation, doctors released her home in early October. Loki Schmidt died in the presence of her daughter Susanne in the early morning hours of October 21, 2010 in her house in the Hamburg district of Langenhorn .

Loki Schmidt's urn grave

On November 1st, 2010, a funeral service for Loki Schmidt took place in the Michaeliskirche in Hamburg . Among the 2000 guests were Chancellor Angela Merkel , Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and the former Federal Presidents Richard von Weizsäcker and Horst Köhler . The funeral sermon was given by the former Hanoverian regional bishop Eduard Lohse , the liturgy was headed by the senior pastor Alexander Röder . The funeral speech was held by the former mayor of Hamburg and friend of the Schmidt family, Henning Voscherau . After the funeral service, Loki Schmidt was cremated and the urn was buried in the grave of the Schmidt family in the main cemetery in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf on November 2, 2010.

Dedication names

The bromeliad named after Loki Schmidt, Pitcairnia loki-schmidtiae Rauh & Barthlott discovered it as a previously undescribed species during a trip to Mexico in 1985. After her, the bromeliad Puya lokischmidtiae R. Vásquez & Ibisch , the balsamic plant Impatiens loki-schmidtiae Eb.Fisch. & Raheliv. ,, The Venezuelan rose plant Lachemilla loki-schmidtiae J.Gaviria , the iris Iris lokiae Alexeeva , the orchid Orchis lokiana H.Baumann and the scorpion Tityus lokiae .

Philatelic

100th birthday gave German Post AG with the Inception a March 1, 2019 special stamp in the denomination out of 45 euro cents. The design comes from the graphic artist Andreas Ahrens from Hanover.

Works

botany
  • Protect nature. Impressions from our homeland. Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1979, ISBN 3-451-18225-4 .
  • with H.-U. Reyer, W. Migongo-Buke: Field Studies and Experiments on Distribution and Foraging of Pied and Malachite Kingfishers at Lake Nakuru (Kenya) . In: Journal of Animal Ecology. Volume 57, 1988, ISSN  0021-8790 , pp. 595-610, JSTOR 4927 .
  • with W. Barthlott, S. Porembski, M. Kluge, J. Hopke: Selenicereus wittii (Cactaceae). An epiphyte adapted to Amazonian Igapó inundation forests. In: Plant Systematics and Evolution. Volume 206, 1997, ISSN  0378-2697 , pp. 175-185, doi: 10.1007 / BF00987947 .
  • The Botanical Gardens in Germany. Verlag Hoffmann and Campe, 1997, ISBN 3-455-11120-3 .
  • The flowers of the year. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-455-09395-7 .
  • with P. Parolin, J. Adis, MF da Silva, IL do Amaral and MTF Piedade: Floristic composition of a floodplain forest in the Anavilhanas archipelago, Brazilian Amazonia . In: Amazoniana. Volume 17, No. 3/4, ISSN  0065-6755 , 2003, pp. 399-411 (abstract) .
  • with Lothar Frenz: The nature book for the curious. Rowohlt Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-87134-681-1 , reading sample, 15 p. (PDF file; 235 kB).
Autobiographical

Awards

Bust in the Botanical Garden in Hamburg
Loki Schmidt greenhouses in Rostock, entrance
  • 1982: Awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Gold Medal by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS in Hamburg
  • 1987: Awarded the “Rheydt Golden Flower”; oldest German environmental award
  • 1989: Rhineland thaler from the Rhineland Regional Council
  • 1990: Honorary Senator of the University of Hamburg , Hamburg Prize for Hunting Policy
  • 1994: Award of the Alfred Toepfer Medal by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
  • 1995: Awarded the medal of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn
  • 1997: Bruno H. Schubert Prize. Awarded an honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg in recognition of the international gardener exchange in which the St. Petersburg Botanical Garden is also involved
  • 1998: Appointment as an honorary member of the Friends of the New Botanical Garden of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel e. V. , appointment as honorary technical director of the working group of the technical directors of the botanical gardens in Germany (AGTL e.V.)
  • 1999: On her 80th birthday: Awarded the honorary title of professor by the Hamburg Senate for her services to plant and nature conservation. Honorary membership of the Association of Botanical Gardens in Kiel.
  • 2000: Award of an honorary doctorate (honorary doctorate in natural sciences) from the University of Hamburg in the Biology department for a life's work of outstanding importance and commitment in all areas of scientific and practical nature conservation. Ernst von Siemens Medal by the Society of Friends of the Botanical Garden in Munich
  • 2002: Awarded the Simon Schwendener Medal by the German Botanical Society
  • 2003: Naming of the gene bank for wild plants, Botanical Garden of the University of Osnabrück , in "Loki Schmidt gene bank for wild plants"
  • 2004: German environmental award by the German Federal Environment Foundation as an honorary award for her lifetime achievement
  • 2007: Goldene Feder , media award from the Bauer Media Group
  • February 12, 2009: Honorary Citizen of Hamburg as the highest honor of the Free and Hanseatic City.
  • March 3, 2009: For her 90th birthday on March 3, 90 "Loki-Schmidt-Beets" were planted all over Germany.
  • March 30, 2009: Opening of the new museum for useful plants of the University of Hamburg as " Loki-Schmidt-House " in the botanical garden Klein Flottbek
  • May 15, 2009: The greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of the University of Rostock were named Loki Schmidt greenhouses
  • August 1, 2012: The Othmarscher Kirchenweg school, where Loki Schmidt taught for 13 years, is renamed the Loki Schmidt School.
  • October 23, 2012: The Hamburg Botanical Garden is renamed Loki Schmidt Garden .
  • May 11, 2017: The central square of the “Pergolenviertel” residential area under construction in Hamburg-Winterhude is called Loki-Schmidt-Platz .
  • March 1, 2019: On the 100th birthday: Issue of a special stamp for the 100th birthday of Hannelore "Loki" Schmidt with a ceremonial presentation in the Museum of Hamburg History on March 25, 2019.

literature

  • Helmut and Loki Schmidt Foundation (Ed.): Chancellor's Art - The private collection of Helmut and Loki Schmidt , Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich / Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-86218-134-6
  • Lothar Frenz: A year with Loki . Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7371-0065-6 .
  • Reiner Lehberger : The Schmidts. A couple of the century . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-455-00436-6 .
  • Reiner Lehberger: Loki Schmidt. The biography . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-455-50285-5 .
  • Reiner Lehberger: Schmidt, Hannelore ("Loki") , in: Hamburgische Biographie . Vol. 6, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , pp. 293-296.
  • Jens Meyer-Odewald: One life. Helmut and Hannelore Schmidt , eds .: Lars Haider, Hamburger Abendblatt, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-939716-98-3 . (Image double biography using photos from public archives and private photos from the Helmut Schmidt archive)
  • Petra Schwarz, Reinhard Lieberei: Loki Schmidt. Researcher and ambassador for nature , Edition Temmen Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8378-2006-5 (= studies of the Helmut and Loki Schmidt Foundation, vol. 5)

Web links

Commons : Loki Schmidt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Citizenship and Senate mourn Loki Schmidt , press release of the Hamburg Senate Chancellery on hamburg.de, October 21, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b c d Loki Schmidt: More than just a Chancellor's wife on the website of Norddeutscher Rundfunk , October 21, 2010.
  3. ↑ a b c d e wife of the former chancellor: Loki Schmidt is dead. Der Spiegel , October 21, 2010, accessed on October 21, 2010 .
  4. ↑ "We still want to experience the 70th wedding anniversary" Interview with Loki Schmidt from September 21, 2010
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hhj-orgelverein.de
  6. ↑ Joachim Wendt: The Lichtwarkschule in Hamburg (1921-1937) - a place of the reform of the higher education system. Verl. Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-923356-95-1 , p. 345 and p. 365
  7. ↑ a b c d e Diepresse.com: Helmut and Loki Schmidt celebrate Iron Wedding on June 26, 2007.
  8. ↑ Loki Schmidt actually wanted a big family. But she suffered six miscarriages, one before the birth of Susanne, five afterwards (Michael Schwelin: Helmut Schmidt: a life for peace . Heyne-Verlag Munich, p. 110).
  9. ↑ Torsten Krauel, He mastered titan fights, they everyday life , in: Welt online from October 21, 2010.
  10. ↑ a b c Vita Hannelore Schmidt ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. German Federal Environment Foundation, accessed on October 22, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dbu.de
  11. ↑ http://www.stern.de/politik/deutschland/altkanzler-helmut-schmidt-bei-maischberger-ich-arbeite-bis-ich-muede-bin-1634400.html Retrieved on December 15, 2010
  12. ↑ Loki Schmidt gives Silberpflanze to the AKN, July 5, 2010.
  13. ^ Foundation for International Gardeners' Exchange - History of the Foundation
  14. ↑ Role model with impressive demeanor ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Vorwärts.de, October 21, 2010, accessed on October 21, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vorwaerts.de
  15. ↑ Schmidt's difficult farewell to Loki
  16. ^ Loki Schmidt buried in Ohlsdorf Park Cemetery Die Welt ; November 3, 2010
  17. ↑ Adansonia. Volume 26, No. 1, 2004, p. 46 (48-49; fig. 7).
  18. ↑ Plantula. Volume 1, No. 1, 1996, p. 78.
  19. ↑ Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad). Volume 98, 2013, p. 1416
  20. ↑ Helmut Baumann: Orchis lokiana H. Baumann spec. nov. - a new endemic species from Northeastern Geria. In the bulletin of the working group native orchids in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 14, No. 3, 1982, ISSN  0723-2721 , pp. 241-260.
  21. ↑ That is iron! 65 years of Schmidt-Einander . Report in the Hamburger Abendblatt from June 26, 2007 (accessed on February 13, 2009).
  22. ↑ 100th birthday of Hannelore "Loki" Schmidt
  23. ↑ Honorary Senators of the University of Hamburg ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-hamburg.de
  24. ↑ Uni HH Press Service, Department of Biology pays tribute to Hannelore Schmidt, June 30, 2000 ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-hamburg.de
  25. ↑ From the "hobby botanist" to capacity: Species protection as a "matter of the heart" ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . German Federal Environment Foundation, October 14, 2004 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dbu.de
  26. ↑ Award: Why Loki Schmidt becomes an honorary citizen of Hamburg , report in Welt Online from December 9, 2008 (accessed on February 13, 2009).
  27. ↑ Loki Schmidt made an honorary citizen , report of the German Depeschendienst of February 12, 2009 (accessed on February 12, 2009).
  28. ^ Stiftung Naturschutz zu Loki-Schmidt-Beeten ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stiftung-naturschutz-hh.de
  29. ↑ University of Hamburg: Biozentrum Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de
  30. ↑ Loki Schmidt greenhouses ( memento of the original from October 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Botanical Garden of the University of Rostock “Loki Schmidt inaugurates Rostock tropical house as namesake” , ad-hoc-news.de, May 15, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.biologie.uni-rostock.de
  31. ↑ ndr.de: Helmut in the Loki Schmidt School very cheerful ( Memento from September 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  32. ↑ ndr.de: Loki's garden now bears her name ( Memento from November 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  33. ↑ Official Gazette of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, issue 40/2017 of May 23, 2017, page 798.
  34. ^ BMF: 100th birthday of Hannelore "Loki" Schmidt. In: www.bundesfinanzministerium.de. Federal Ministry of Finance, March 1, 2019, accessed on March 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Loki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Hannelore (real name); Glaser, Hannelore (maiden name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION German founder and conservationist, wife of Helmut Schmidt
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 2010
Place of death Hamburg