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Biography
Born Helmut Neustädter into a Jewish family in Berlin in 1920, Helmut Newton expressed an early interest in photography and in 1936 began working for the German photographer Elsie Simon, who went by the name Yva. After his family fled Germany in 1938, Newton landed in Singapore, where he found work as a photographer. He was interned by authorities in Singapore and sent to Australia. After his release, he served in the Australian army for five years, enabling him to become an Australian citizen. He changed his name to Helmut Newton in 1946.
Newton became an iconic figure in German fashion photography recognized for his radical, edgy, and, at times, racy subject matter. Inspired by film noir, Expressionist cinema, S&M, and surrealism, Newton’s images are controversial, provocative, and heavily voyeuristic. Newton preferred to work outside the studio and searched for the elaborate decor of turn-of-the-century mansions, elegant villas, or distinguished hotels to stage his models. Newton pushed the boundaries of the fashion industry with his erotically charged often
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Biography
Helmut Hasse's father was a judge. His mother was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA but lived in Kassel from the age of five. Helmut's education was at various secondary schools near to Kassel until in 1913, when he was 15 years of age, his father was appointed to an important position in Berlin and the family moved there. Helmut studied for two years at the Fichte-Gymnasium in Berlin before volunteering for naval service during World War I.In the academic year 1917/18 Hasse was stationed at Kiel on his naval duties and he was able to attend the lectures of Otto Toeplitz. On leaving the navy he entered the University of Göttingen. His teachers there included Edmund Landau, Hilbert, Emmy Noether and Hecke. In fact he was most influenced by Hecke despite the fact that Hecke left Göttingen to take up an appointment in Hamburg only a few months after Hasse arrived in Göttingen.
It might be supposed that Hasse would have followed Hecke to Hamburg but he did not take this route, going to study under Hensel at Marburg in 1920. Hensel's work on p-adic numbers was to ha
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Helmut Kohl
Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998
For the Austrian football referee, see Helmut Kohl (referee).
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (German:[ˈhɛlmuːtˈkoːl]ⓘ; 3 April 1930 – 16 June 2017) was a German politician who served as chancellor of Germany from 1990 to 1998 and, prior to German reunification, as the chancellor of West Germany from 1982 to 1990. He was leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998 and oversaw the end of the Cold War, the German reunification and the creation of the European Union (EU). Kohl’s 16-year tenure is the longest of any German chancellor since Otto von Bismarck, and is the longest for any democratically elected chancellor of Germany.
Born in Ludwigshafen to a Catholic family, Kohl joined the CDU in 1946 at the age of 16. He earned a PhD in history at Heidelberg University in 1958 and worked as a business executive before becoming a full-time politician. He was elected as the youngest member of the Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1959 and from 1969 to 1976 was minister president of the Rhineland-Pal