Olle Schmidt

Thorsten Frederik Olof " Olle " Smith ( born July 22, 1949 in Axvall, Skara Municipality ) is a Swedish politician of the liberal Folkpartiet nutrition.

He attended after graduating from high school in Skara Lund University, there was a candidate for philosophy and graduated as Master from philosophiae. He worked as a teacher then, information secretary and PR assistant at the shipyard in Uddevalla. From 1977 to 1981 he was the Liberal People's Party Ombudsman in Malmo, later he worked as Information Secretary in the Swedish Ministry of Commerce and as a political assistant in Malmö. From 1988 to 1991 he sat in the City Council of Malmö, was a member of the city council and was there as well as in Lund policy advisor in the area of ​​health care. From 1991 to 1994 he belonged to the Riksdag on, then he was back in the city council of Malmö and was there as well as in Kristianstad again political adviser. In his party Schmidt was a member of the Executive Board and the Executive Committee and was for a short time also political secretary and head of administration.

Schmidt Member of the European Parliament since 1999, with a break of 2004 to 2006.