Photo: DPAHelmut Schmidt was almost as famous for the cigarette that he permanently held to his mouth as for his time as Germany’s leader. The cigarette case. Photo: DPANow an auctioneer in the Lüneburger Heide, north Germany, is putting one of his cigarette cases up for auction. The case in question was given to Schmidt as a gift on his 60th birthday in 1978 by the then President of Germany Walter Scheel, the Schloss Ahlden auction house announced on Friday. At the same auction a portrait of Schmidt by the expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka will also go on sale.

Source: The Local August 25, 2017 13:41 UTC