Horst Schmid
| Horst A. Schmid | |
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| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta | |
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In office August 30, 1971 – May 8, 1986 |
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| Preceded by | New District |
| Succeeded by | Marie Laing |
| Constituency | Edmonton-Avonmore |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
April 29, 1933 Munich, Germany |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Occupation | international trade businessman |
Horst Adolph Louis Charles Schmid (born April 29, 1933) is a former provincial level politician and international trade businessman from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative party from 1971 to 1986. During his time in office he served numerous ministerial portfolio's in the Executive Council of Alberta.
Horst A. Schmid was born in Munich, Germany. He emigrated to Canada, moving up to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to work as a miner in 1952. He moved to Edmonton, Alberta in 1956. After arriving from the North, Schmid took numerous courses from the University of Toronto in Business Administration, Business Finance, and Business Psychology.
In the late 1960s, Schmid ran a restaurant in Edmonton called the Hofbräuhaus, after the original in Munich. At that time, he also founded a Bavarian folk dance Schuhplattler group, the Bavarian Schuhplattlers of Edmonton, still active today. From 1956 to 1966, Schmid was the volunteer host of a weekly Sunday radio program on Radio CKUA Edmonton called ``Music and News from the German-Speaking Countries of Europe`` (Fraser, Alberta's Camelot, 2003, p.64). This program also informed the listeners about their new home in Canada.
Schmid ran for a seat in the Alberta Legislature for the first time in the 1971 Alberta general election. The contest in the new electoral district of Edmonton-Avonmore ended up being a close two way race between Schmid and incumbent Social Credit MLA Gerrit Radstaak. Two other candidates rounded out the field. He won the hotly contested race in to pick up the seat for the Progressive Conservatives. His win helped that party form government after the election, one of only four times that power has shifted hands in Alberta's history.
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