Loki Schmidt
Hannelore " Loki " Schmidt, nee Glaser ( born March 3, 1919 in Hamburg, † October 21, 2010 ibid ) was a German educator and the wife of Altbundeskanzlers Helmut Schmidt, which, because of their passion for biology and nature as a botanist, nature - Pflanzenschützerin and operated and was thus perceived far beyond the tenure of her husband out into the public. So it was in this area, among others, as an author and the institutions initiated by her recognition.
Life
Born in the working-class town part Hammerbrookstraße, Hannelore grew up with her sister and brother Christopher Linde up in modest circumstances. Her father was Hermann Glaser electrician in a shipyard. When he was unemployed in 1931, Mother Gertrude began to work as a seamstress. As a small child she gave herself the nickname " Loki ". She attended from 1925 the reform-oriented Schulenburgstraße, from 1929, the musically influenced, also reform-minded Lichtwark in Hamburg and met at this co-educational school her future husband Helmut Schmidt, with whom she went from the beginning in the same class. With him she was smoking at the time their first cigarettes, which remained both trademark to a ripe old age. Class teacher with the subject of biology was Ida Eberhardt, who was released in 1935 because she had spoken out against the posting of the diatribe The striker in the Lichtwark. Your temporary German teacher Erna steel belonged to the environment of the White Rose Hamburg. After graduation, she took off at the convent school, as the co-education at the Lichtwark had been lifted, had Loki Glaser 1937 Reich Labor Service. Her desire to study biology, failed because of the tuition fees, which she studied education for teachers for primary schools and this graduated after four semesters 1940.
After the return of Helmut employed as an officer of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front Schmidt followed her engagement Easter 1942, the marriage on 27 June 1942 and in the village Hambergen the church wedding on July 1. From this marriage two children were born. Son Helmut Walter ( born June 26, 1944) died before his first birthday on February 19, 1945 in Bernau. Her daughter Susanne was born in May 1947 in Hamburg and now works as a doctorate in economics and business journalist in England. Before and after the birth of her daughter Loki Schmidt suffered six miscarriages. After her husband was released from captivity in 1945, he studied until 1949, political science and economics before taking up employment with the Hamburg Economy and Transport authority. During this time, Loki Schmidt provided solely for the upkeep of the family.
From 1940 to 1972 Loki Schmidt worked as elementary, Elementary and junior high school teacher.
Between 1974 and 1982, Loki Schmidt took of protocol duties as wife of the Chancellor and dedicated primarily for crop protection and nature conservation. Reinforced they choose after the end of the chancellorship their commitment to endangered plant still and let the deputation of authority for district affairs, Nature Conservation and Environmental Design in Hamburg. Even on social issues, such as school policy she took occasional position. For years she accompanied at his own expense expeditions of scientists, most of the Max Planck Society, for example, to Lake Nakuru in Kenya, the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, Malaysia, North Borneo or Brazil. Even after that date to the 1990s, she undertook extensive travels abroad for the study of plant life and nature. It was considered a follower of Charles Darwin.
In 1976, she had already established the Board of Trustees for the protection of endangered plants, which in 1979 converted into a foundation. This foundation merged with the Nature Conservation Foundation Hamburg (founded in 1985/1986 under the then president of the Hamburg Environmental Authority and today's Foundation Council Chairman Senator, Wolfgang Curilla substantial participation ) for Nature Conservation Foundation Hamburg and Foundation Loki Schmidt (short: Foundation for Nature and plants today Loki Schmidt Foundation ). The foundation has awarded since 1977 as the award " Loki Schmidt- silver plant". The Environment Award, which is awarded to people who where nature conservation at heart, went back to an idea of Kurt A. Körber and Loki Schmidt and was also awarded by her on the recommendation of the Foundation itself. In addition, since 1980, the Foundation also selects the flower of the year and presents these.
Since the 1970s, she also sat down for a botanical garden in Hamburg and its task for the research and conservation of biological diversity. As part of its commitment to Botanical Gardens, she initiated the 1986 international gardener exchange that began with a funded her travel by gardeners of the Hamburg Botanical Garden to Mitbepflanzung the first tropical greenhouse in Israel and initially managed by the Foundation for Nature and plants and later by the Foundation international gardener exchange was acquired.
For a picture book published in 1997, The Botanic Gardens in Germany with the first complete overview of botanical gardens in Germany and their collections they researched for two years and laid back 26,000 miles traveled.
In 2005, she manifested itself in my life for the school for education policy. Three years later the book appeared Tell it out of earlier and she was in her 90th year with her memoirs to the best-selling author. In October 2010, her book appeared on the red carpet and firmly on the ground.
Loki Schmidt rushed end of September 2010 and broke a foot. After surgery, the doctors released her in early October home. Loki Schmidt, died in the presence of her daughter, Susan, in the early morning hours of October 21, 2010 in her home in Hamburg's Long Horn.
On 1 November 2010 a memorial service for Loki Schmidt took place in Hamburg's St. Michael's Church. Among the 2000 guests have included German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and the former Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker and Horst Köhler. The funeral sermon was delivered by the former Hanoverian Bishop Eduard Lohse, the liturgy led Senior Pastor Alexander Röder. The eulogy was given by the former mayor of Hamburg and friend of Henning Schmidt Voscherau family. Following the funeral Loki Schmidt was cremated, the urn will be placed in the grave of the Schmidt family in the main cemetery in Hamburg - Ohlsdorf took place on 2 November 2010.
Discovered and named plant and animal species
Named after Loki Schmidt bromeliad Pitcairnia loki - schmidtii ( Rauh & Barthlott ) had discovered than hitherto undescribed species on a trip to Mexico in 1985 itself. In honor of the bromeliad Puya ( & Raheliv after Eb.Fisch. . ) The Venezuelan Rose family pool Milla loki - schmidtiae J.Gaviria were lokischmidtiae (after R.Vásquez & Ibisch ), the Balsaminengewächs Impatiens loki - schmidtiae, and named the scorpion Tityus lokiae.
Works
- Protect the nature. Impressions from our home. 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, pp. 595-610, summary, ISSN 0021-8790.
- With W. Barthlott, S. Porembski, M. Kluge, J. Hopke: selenicereus wittii ( Cactaceae ). An epiphyte angepasst to Amazonian inundation forests Igapó. In: Plant Systematics and Evolution, Volume 206, 1997, pp. 175-185, ISSN 0378-2697.
- The botanical gardens in Germany. Published by Hoffmann und Campe, 1997, ISBN 3-455-11120-3.
- The flowers of the year. Hoffmann und 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 ( 3/4), 2003, pp. 399-411, Abstract, ISSN 0065-6755.
- The nature book for the curious. Loki Schmidt, Lothar Frenz. Rowohlt Berlin, Berlin 2010, 240 pp., ISBN 978-3-87134-681-1, sample, 15 pp. (PDF, 234.5 kB).
- Hannelore Schmidt: Forced to be early adulthood. In: Helmut Schmidt, Childhood and Youth under Hitler. Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1992, 2nd edition, ISBN 3-88680-444-5, pp. 19-68.
- Loki: Hannelore Schmidt talks about her life. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-455-09408-2.
- My life for the school. Loki Schmidt in conversation with Reiner Lehberger. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-455-09486-4 ( for Lichtwark ).
- Tell me of times past. Loki Schmidt in conversation with Reinhold Beckmann. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 3-455-50094-3.
- Loki Schmidt, Reiner Lehberger: At a coffee with Loki Schmidt. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-455-50167-4.