Helmut Schmidt

Quality:

Helmut Schmidt - Chancellor of West Germany (1974–1982). This person is the 4700^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 69^th most popular person in German Wikipedia. Article “Helmut Schmidt” in German Wikipedia has 99.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 134 references and 26 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 275^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 90^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

The 69^th most popular in people in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6168^th most popular in AI.

The 4700^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 1062^nd most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Helmut Schmidt” was edited by 3 authors in German Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Helmut Schmidt”, its content was written by 1082 registered users of German Wikipedia (90^th place) and edited by 3256 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6168^th place).

Helmut Schmidt is on the 69^th place in local ranking of people in German Wikipedia and on the 4700^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 1518 times in German Wikipedia (7170^th place) and cited 9272 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #3 in November 2015
• Global: #11 in November 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #1 in November 2015
• Global: #83 in November 2015

There are 51 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Helmut Schmidt		99.1809
2	English (en) Helmut Schmidt		85.4312
3	Hebrew (he) הלמוט שמידט		76.849
4	Polish (pl) Helmut Schmidt		56.8037
5	Norwegian (no) Helmut Schmidt		55.1311
6	Italian (it) Helmut Schmidt		55.0401
7	Russian (ru) Шмидт, Гельмут		49.6107
8	Georgian (ka) ჰელმუტ შმიდტი		45.3073
9	Chinese (zh) 赫尔穆特·施密特		45.1913
10	Spanish (es) Helmut Schmidt		40.4492

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Helmut Schmidt		12 102 813
2	English (en) Helmut Schmidt		3 282 931
3	French (fr) Helmut Schmidt		704 133
4	Russian (ru) Шмидт, Гельмут		557 631
5	Italian (it) Helmut Schmidt		339 921
6	Polish (pl) Helmut Schmidt		328 601
7	Spanish (es) Helmut Schmidt		317 931
8	Japanese (ja) ヘルムート・シュミット		253 219
9	Dutch (nl) Helmut Schmidt		218 013
10	Chinese (zh) 赫尔穆特·施密特		164 906

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Helmut Schmidt		30 865
2	English (en) Helmut Schmidt		12 504
3	Russian (ru) Шмидт, Гельмут		2 446
4	French (fr) Helmut Schmidt		1 604
5	Italian (it) Helmut Schmidt		1 125
6	Polish (pl) Helmut Schmidt		1 096
7	Spanish (es) Helmut Schmidt		991
8	Japanese (ja) ヘルムート・シュミット		964
9	Chinese (zh) 赫尔穆特·施密特		831
10	Dutch (nl) Helmut Schmidt		595

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Helmut Schmidt		1 082
2	English (en) Helmut Schmidt		481
3	French (fr) Helmut Schmidt		159
4	Italian (it) Helmut Schmidt		115
5	Russian (ru) Шмидт, Гельмут		104
6	Dutch (nl) Helmut Schmidt		90
7	Japanese (ja) ヘルムート・シュミット		89
8	Hebrew (he) הלמוט שמידט		86
9	Chinese (zh) 赫尔穆特·施密特		78
10	Spanish (es) Helmut Schmidt		70

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Helmut Schmidt		3
2	English (en) Helmut Schmidt		3
3	French (fr) Helmut Schmidt		3
4	Arabic (ar) هلموت شميت		2
5	Catalan (ca) Helmut Schmidt		1
6	Greek (el) Χέλμουτ Σμιτ		1
7	Italian (it) Helmut Schmidt		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Helmut Schmidt		1
9	Turkish (tr) Helmut Schmidt		1
10	Ukrainian (uk) Гельмут Шмідт		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information