Guido Schmidt

Infobox Chancellor
name=Guido Schmidt
nationality=Austrian


order=Foreign Minister of Austria
term_start=July 11, 1936
term_end=March 11, 1938
predecessor=Kurt Schuschnigg
successor=Wilhelm Wolf
chancellor= Kurt Schuschnigg
birth_date=birth date|1901|1|15|mf=y
birth_place=Bludenz, Austria
death_date=death date and age|1957|12|5|1901|1|15
death_place=Vienna, Austria
party=VF
religion=Roman Catholic

Guido Schmidt (born on January 15, 1901 in Bludenz, Austria; died on December 5, 1957 in Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian diplomat and politician.

He was a member of the Christian Socialist "Vaterländische Front" (Fatherland Front) party. From 1928 he was vice director of President Wilhelm Miklas' parliament and played an important part in the conclusion of the Juliabkommen in 1936. He was a friend of Kurt Schuschnigg, who made him Secretary of Foreign Affairs on February 12, 1936. He held that post until March 11, 1938, one day before the "Anschluss" of Austria to Hitler's Germany took place.

During World War II he worked in the industrial sector. In 1945, Schmidt was imprisoned because of his pro-Nazi attitude, but he was acquitted in 1947. Schmidt was the father of the successful and influential Austrian business-man, Guido Schmidt-Chiari.

Works

* "Der Hochverratsprozess gegen Dr. Guido Schmidt"; Österreichische Staatsdruckerei; Vienna, 1947

ee also

* Austrofascism