Loki Schmidt

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Loki Schmidt
Schmidt in 1981
Born	Hannelore Glaser (1919-03-03)3 March 1919 Hamburg, Germany
Died	21 October 2010(2010-10-21) (aged 91) Hamburg, Germany
Resting place	Ohlsdorf Cemetery
Occupation	Environmentalist
Spouse	Helmut Schmidt ​ (m. 1942)​
Children	2

Hannelore "Loki" Schmidt (

Hannelore Glaser was born in 1919 in Hamburg. 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

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

She was buried in the Ohlsdorf Cemetery.^[3]

Legacy

The

In 2009, she was awarded the honorary citizen award (Ehrenbürgerschaft)—the highest decoration—of Hamburg.^[5] She died during the night of 20/21 October 2010, aged 91, at her home in Langenhorn. The marriage with Helmut Schmidt had lasted 68 years.

Publications

• Schützt die Natur: Impressionen aus unserer Heimat. Herder Verlag, 1979,
  ISBN 3-451-18225-4
  .
• 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,
  ISSN 0021-8790
  .
• 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,
  ISSN 0378-2697
  .
• Die Botanischen Gärten in Deutschland. Verlag Hoffmann und Campe, 1997,
  ISBN 3-455-11120-3
  .
• Die Blumen des Jahres. Verlag Hoffmann und Campe, 2003,
  ISBN 3-455-09395-7
  .
• 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,
  ISSN 0065-6755
  .
• Loki: Hannelore Schmidt erzählt aus ihrem Leben. Verlag Hoffmann und Campe, 2003,
  ISBN 3-455-09408-2
  .
• Mein Leben für die Schule. 2005,
  ISBN 3-455-09486-4
• Erzähl doch mal von früher: Loki Schmidt im Gespräch mit Reinhold Beckmann. Verlag Hoffman und Campe, 2008,
  ISBN 3-455-50094-3
  .

External links

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• Loki Schmidt in the German National Library catalogue
• Stiftung Naturschutz Hamburg