Robert Schmidt
Vice-Chancellor of Germany
In office 13 August 1923 ? 6 October 1923
Chancellor	Gustav Stresemann
Preceded by	Gustav Bauer
Succeeded by	Karl Jarres
Reich Minister for Reconstruction
In office 13 August 1923 ? 6 October 1923
Chancellor	Gustav Stresemann
Preceded by	Heinrich Albert
Succeeded by	Office abolished
Reich Minister of Economics
In office 10 May 1921 ? 22 November 1922
Chancellor	Joseph Wirth
Preceded by	Ernst Scholz
Succeeded by	Johann Becker
In office 16 July 1919 ? 21 June 1920
Chancellor	Gustav Bauer Hermann Muller
Preceded by	Ernst Scholz
Succeeded by	Johann Becker
Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture
In office 13 February 1919 ? 14 September 1919
Chancellor	Philipp Scheidemann Gustav Bauer
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Andreas Hermes
Member of the Reichstag ( Weimar Republic )
In office 6 February 1919 ? 18 July 1930
1919?1920	Weimar National Assembly
Constituency	Berlin (1919) National list (1920-1924) Westfalen Sud (1924-1930)
( German Empire )
In office 3 December 1903 ? 9 November 1918
Constituency	Berlin 5
Personal details
Born	( 1864-05-15 ) 15 May 1864 Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia
Died	16 September 1943 (1943-09-16) (aged 79) Berlin , Nazi Germany
Nationality	German
Political party	Social Democratic Party

Robert Schmidt (15 May 1864 ? 16 September 1943) was a German trade unionist, journalist, politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He served as the minister of Reichsernahrungsminister (Alimentation), Reichswirtschaftsminister (Economic Affairs) and Reichsminister fur Wiederaufbau (Reconstruction) in a number of cabinets of the Weimar Republic .

Life [ edit ]

Robert Schmidt was born in Berlin on 15 May 1864. He was apprenticed as a piano builder, and from 1890 to 1893 served as a member of the board of the association of piano builders of Berlin. ^[1]

From 1893 to 1902, he was editor for the social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts .

From 1893 to 1898 and from 1903 to 1918, Schmidt was a member of the Reichstag of the German Empire for the Social Democratic Party of Germany. In 1902, he was a member of the Generalkommission of German trade unions and from 1903 to 1910 was head of the Zentral-Arbeitersekretariat . ^[1]

In 1918, he became Unterstaatssekretar of the Kriegsernahrungsamt . After the German Revolution , he was elected to the National Assembly of the Weimar Republic (1919?20). He remained a member of the Reichstag until 1930. ^[1]

In 1919, Schmidt became Reichsernahrungsminister (Minister for Alimentation/Food) in the cabinet of Ministerprasident Philipp Scheidemann . He continued to serve in the government as Reichswirtschaftsminister (minister for Economic Affairs) in the cabinet of Gustav Bauer (1919?20). He retained this position in the cabinets of Hermann Muller , and Joseph Wirth from March 1920 to November 1922, interrupted only by the Fehrenbach cabinet (June 1920 - May 1921), which excluded the SPD. In 1923, he was vice-chancellor and minister for Reconstruction in the first cabinet of Gustav Stresemann . In 1929, he again served briefly as minister for Reconstruction in the second cabinet of Hermann Muller . ^{[1] [2]}

Schmidt died on 16 September 1943 in Berlin. ^[1]

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Media related to Robert Schmidt at Wikimedia Commons