Henri Schmidt
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Henri Schmidt
| image =
| caption =
| office = Member of the Bundestag
| term_start = 2025
| term_end =
| constituency = Herzogtum Lauenburg – Stormarn-Süd
| party = Christian Democratic Union
| otherparty =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|7 May 1983|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Luckenwalde, Germany (then East Germany)
| alma_mater =
| predecessor = Nina Scheer
}}
Henri Schmidt (born 7 May 1983) is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2025.
Life
Schmidt was born in Luckenwalde in 1983. He graduated from high school in 2002. He then began training as an officer in the Air Force in Bayreuth and Fürstenfeldbruck. From 2003 to 2007 he studied political science at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. He also studied business administration with a focus on human resources management at the {{Ill|AKAD Bildungsgesellschaft|de}} in Stuttgart. He completed both courses with a diploma.{{cite web|access-date=2025-02-24 |title=Henri Schmidt - Ausbildung |url=https://henri-schmidt.de/henri-schmidt-ausbildung/}}
After a career in the Air Force, Schmidt moved into business in 2014. Since July 2024, he has been managing director of a medium-sized IT company, for which he had already worked since 2023.{{cite web|access-date=2025-02-24 |title=Henri Schmidt im Gespräch: Wie CONVOTIS die digitale Zukunft des HR-Bereichs gestaltet |url=https://www.convotis.com/lu/henri-schmidt-im-gespraech/}}
Schmidt is married and has two children. He lives with his family in Barsbüttel.
Politics
Schmidt has been a member of the CDU since 2004. There he initially worked in the Hamburg regional association and worked for more than ten years for the Bundestag member Jürgen Klimke.{{cite web|access-date=2025-02-25 |title=Henri Schmidt Politik |url=https://henri-schmidt.de/henri-schmidt-politisch/}} Since 2018, Schmidt has been a member of the Barsbüttel municipal council and is the CDU parliamentary group leader there. In the {{Ill|2023 Schleswig-Holstein local elections|de|Kommunalwahlen in Schleswig-Holstein 2023}}, he was elected to the Stormarn district council.{{cite web|access-date=2025-02-24 |title=Flyer Kandidat Henri Schmidt |url=https://www.cdu-stormarn.de/sites/www.cdu-stormarn.de/files/flyer_2_kandidat_und_wahlprogramm_aussen_henri.pdf}}
Schmidt ran for the 2025 German federal election in the constituency of Herzogtum Lauenburg – Stormarn-Süd. He initially prevailed at the CDU constituency members' meeting against an internal party competitor.{{cite web|access-date=2025-02-25 |date=2024-09-23 |title=Bundestagswahlkreis 10: Entscheidung bei der CDU ist gefallen |url=https://www.loz-news.de/regionalnachrichten/moelln/bundestagswahlkreis-10-entscheidung-bei-der-cdu-ist-gefallen}} At the state representative meeting of the {{Ill|CDU Schleswig-Holstein|de}}, Schmidt was also elected to eleventh place on his party's list.{{cite web|access-date=2025-02-24 |title=Landesliste BTW 2025 - CDU SH {{!}} Beschluss der Landesvertreterversammlung der CDU Schleswig-Holstein vom 11. Dezember 2024 |url=https://www.cdu-sh.de/sites/www.cdu-sh.de/files/btw_landesliste_2025_cdu_sh_beschluss_lvv_-namen.pdf}}
On 23 February 2025, Henri Schmidt won 32.7% of the first votes in the election. This enabled him to recapture the constituency for the CDU after the Social Democratic Party (SPD) candidate Nina Scheer won in 2021, but this time only received 23.4% of the vote. Schmidt received a direct mandate in the 21st German Bundestag through his victory in his constituency.{{cite web|access-date=2025-02-24 |title=Ergebnisse Bundestagswahl 2025: 010: Herzogtum Lauenburg — Stormarn-Süd |url=https://www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/bundestagswahlen/2025/ergebnisse/bund-99/land-1/wahlkreis-10.html}}
External links
- [https://henri-schmidt.de/ Personal Homepage]
References
{{Members of the 21st Bundestag}}
Category:People from Luckenwalde
Category:Helmut Schmidt University alumni
Category:Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians
Category:Members of the Bundestag for Schleswig-Holstein
Category:21st-century German politicians
Category:Members of the Bundestag 2025–2029
Category:Members of the Bundestag for the Christian Democratic Union of Germany