Loki Schmidt was hospitalized

Former Federal Chancellor's wife Loki Schmidt was taken to a Hamburg hospital because of a broken leg.

The wife of former SPD Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was taken to a Hamburg clinic. According to the „Asklepios Clinic North“ The now 91-year-old is being hospitalized in the orthopedic department of the hospital since Thursday. She had broken her foot.

The sprightly pensioner and wife of former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is treated since Thursday in a Hamburg clinic. Physicians of the Orthopedic Department and Trauma Surgery have already successfully operated the former chancellor's wife. Loki Schmidt is on the way to health improvement, as a spokesman for the clinic confirmed. The hospital did not want to give more details to protect the privacy of the patient.

Already two years ago, Loki Schmidt had to be taken to a hospital because she had fallen at home. For a long time of more than six weeks, Ms. Schmidt had to stay at the clinic. Only one year before, she had to be treated for spinal health due to health problems.

As people get older, older people often have to seek medical treatment for a variety of illnesses or accidents. Loki Schmidt once said in an ARD television program with Reinhold Beckmann that young people can not imagine how difficult it is to become increasingly dependent on age. Ms. Schmidt said: "A younger person can not imagine how difficult it is to be dependent". Only with iron discipline she has managed to get well and fit again. The 91-year-old reported on the stress during the aging process. Again and again you have to go in care. "I do not want to be cared for so much," said Ms. Schmidt, because she was always an independent woman and she wants to stay that way for as long as possible.

Her inner, positive attitude has certainly helped her to master the older. All in all, Ms. Schmidt once reported that she undertook around 70 research trips and always set up her own tent. But that would not work anymore in old age.

The beginning of the age was still a great time, in which one can use the many free time and enjoy life. But then come the time when you need help and become dependent. „Then comes the time when you need help and become dependent on where you need a lot of time to dress and undress yourself. It has nothing to do with the happy time of old age. "Hannelore Schmidt, who likes to talk about herself, said nothing „Loki“ is called.

Loki Schmidt has been married for over 68 years with the ex-chancellor and former SPD chairman Helmut Schmidt. Between the years 1974 and 82 she took over the protocol tasks of a wife of the Federal Chancellor. Loki was particularly involved in nature conservation for the conservation of endangered plants and founded in 1976 the Foundation for the Protection of Endangered Plants. At that time, topics such as the environment and nature conservation were not yet socially anchored. This makes her a pioneer in environmental protection. In numerous books and publications she dealt with the topics of botany and nature conservation. In 1979 she published the book "Protect Nature: Impressions from our Homeland". (sb, 25.09.2010)

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