Guido Schmidt
Guido Schmidt (born 15 January 1901 in Bludenz, † May 5, 1957 in Vienna ) was an Austrian diplomat and politician.
After graduating from high school Stella Matutina in Feldkirch (where he met the later Federal Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg know ) he enrolled for law and political sciences at the University of Vienna. Further study visits were the universities of Berlin and Bologna. In 1924 he received his doctorate in Vienna a doctorate in law. In 1925 he entered the diplomatic service and in 1927 brought by Chancellor Ignaz Seipel in the Registry of the German President Wilhelm Miklas. A year later he was appointed Deputy Director Cabinet. On September 14, 1931, he married Maria Chiari, they had three children, including Guido Schmidt- Chiari.
After the conclusion of the July Agreement, to which Schmidt was instrumental, he was on 11 July 1936 under Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Besides Edmund Glaise of Horstenau Schmidt was the second steward of the Nazis in the Austrian government. On February 12, 1938, he rose as a result of the Berchtesgaden Agreement on the Minister for Foreign Affairs. In the formed after connecting government of Arthur Seyss- Inquart Schmidt was not represented.
In the Third Reich, Hermann Goering made his personal friend Schmidt on July 1, 1938 Director of the Hermann Goering Works in Linz. Eight months after the war, in December 1945, Schmidt was arrested and accused of high treason. On June 12, 1947, the trial before the People's Court of Vienna ended with an acquittal. Since, according to court ruling suspected of treason was not weakened enough, Schmidt got no compensation. Through published by the British element in Baden -Baden 1950 documents, however, the suspicion that Schmidt was working early in 1938 on the dismissal of the Chief of the Austrian General Staff, Alfred Jansa, which had largely prevented a military defense of Austria against the connection. To a new process, it did not come by it.
The mid-1950s he was Director General of the Austrian-American rubber plants Semperit AG. On May 5, 1957 Guido Schmidt died in Vienna. Schmidt was a member of the Catholic fraternity KAV since 1920 Norica Vienna, from which he retired after 1945.