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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 ''Reichsernährungsminister'' (Alimentation), ''Reichswirtschaftsminister'' (Economic Affairs) and ''Reichsminister für Wiederaufbau'' (Reconstruction) in a number of cabinets of the Weimar Republic. ==Life== Robert Schmidt was born in Berlin on 15 May 1864. He was apprenticed as a piano builder and from 1890 to 1893 was a member of the board of the association of piano builders of Berlin.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Files of the Reichskanzlei: Biografie Robert Schmidt (German) )〕 From 1893 to 1902, he was editor for the social-democratic newspaper ''Vorwärts''. 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''.〔 In 1918, he became ''Unterstaatssekretär'' of the ''Kriegsernährungsamt''. 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.〔 In 1919, Schmidt became ''Reichsernährungsminister'' (Minister for Alimentation/Food) in the cabinet of ''Ministerpräsident'' Philipp Scheidemann. He continued to serve in the government as ''Reichswirtschaftsminister'' (Minister for Economic Affairs) in the cabinet of Gustav Bauer (1919-29). He retained this position in the cabinets of Hermann Müller, 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 Müller.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kabinette von 1919 bis 1933 (German) )〕〔 Schmidt died on 16 September 1943 at Berlin.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Schmidt (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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