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Hannelore "Loki" Schmidt (née Glaser; 3 March 1919 – 21 October 2010) was a German environmentalist. She was the wife of Helmut Schmidt, who was the Chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1982.〔(Hannelore Schmidt: Conservationist who worked to protect endangered plants ), ''The Independent Obituary'', 28 October 2010.〕 ==Life and work== Hannelore Glaser was born in 1919 in Hamburg. 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 Flower of the Year campaign, a public awareness campaign for the protection of endangered wildflowers in Germany. For this work she was awarded the title Professor by the University of Hamburg. She was an honorary doctor of the Russian Academy of Science in St. Petersburg and the University of Hamburg. She was buried in the Ohlsdorf Cemetery.〔(''Loki Schmidt in Ohlsdorf beigesetzt'' ) ''Hamburger Abendblatt''; 3 November 2010 (de)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Loki Schmidt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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