Former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt marks 90th birthday

Xinhua News Agency | December 23, 2008 | Copyright

Former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt marks 90th birthday

BERLIN, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt marked his 90th birthday Tuesday in the port city of Hamburg, local media reported.

Schmidt, who represented the Social Democratic Party (SPD) to serve as chancellor from 1974 to 1982 in what was then West Germany, steered the country through the difficult days of the 1970s oil crisis and the terrorist threat mounted by the Red Army Faction.

In her birthday greetings, Chancellor Angela Merkel eulogized Schmidt as "one of the most influential and highly regarded ...

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