Susanne Schmidt (journalist)

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Susanne Schmidt (born May 8, 1947 in Hamburg ) is a German business journalist . She works as a television presenter and commentator.

Life

Susanne Schmidt is the daughter of the former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (1918–2015) and his wife Loki (1919–2010). Her brother Helmut Walter, born in 1944, died before his first birthday.

Schmidt completed her studies in economics with a dissertation under Johannes Feske on the control of capital movements in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1971 to 1973. In it, she judges the policy of controlling capital movements implemented by Helmut Schmidt as Federal Minister of Finance in 1972 against the resistance of his predecessor, Federal Minister of Economics Karl Schiller , as no alternative. Schiller was Minister of Economic Affairs from 1966 and Minister of Finance from May 1971 to July 1972. Nonetheless, Susanne Schmidt criticizes her father's policy for the fact that inflation could have been contained with an earlier transition to free exchange rates .

Susanne Schmidt began her career at Deutsche Bank in Hamburg. In 1980 she went to London, where she initially also worked for Deutsche Bank, then for the Austrian Credit Association and a Japanese investment bank.

In 1988 Susanne Schmidt and Irish Brian Kennedy married. Her husband also works in the banking industry. The couple, who live in Kent , have three children who are not Schmidt's biological children. From 1991 to 2009 she worked for Bloomberg TV in London. In the German-language program, she moderated the three programs "The Big Three" with analyzes and forecasts by currency experts, "Europa Magazin" on the economy and politics of the European Union and "Emerging Markets" with discussions on future markets .

In 2010 she received the German Business Book Prize for her book Markt ohne Moral .

She is deputy chairwoman of the board of trustees of the Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation in Hamburg.

Fonts

  • The capital controls in force in the Federal Republic of Germany and their effect on capital flows abroad: An analysis of the years 1971 to 1973 .
  • Market without morals. The failure of the international financial elite . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-27541-2 .
  • The Law of Crisis: How the Banks Rule Politics . Droemer, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-27600-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Susanne Schmidt ( Memento of the original from April 6, 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. in the business magazine Capital on May 28, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.capital.de
  2. ↑ "Of course I was afraid that my husband, our three children and I might lose our job, or that our pension would no longer be secure.", Daniela Stürmlinger: Susanne Schmidt: "Landesbanken have no future" , Interview, Hamburger Abendblatt , 9 April 2010;
    “I think my parents and I don't think in dynasties.”, H.-J. Vehlewald : What is it like to be Helmut Schmidt's daughter? , Interview with Helmut and Susanne Schmidt, picture , March 24, 2010.
  3. ↑ daughter of Helmut Schmidt: “We don't want to complain” , stern , December 16, 2008, interview with Susanne Schmidt.
  4. ↑ https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/die-stiftung/kuratorium-mitarbeiterinnen/ Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg