Paul Schmidt

Paul Schmidt (b 1890) was a twentieth-century German diplomat. He entered Germany's Diplomatic Corps in 1923 as an interpreter and gradually became Germany's senior translator for the English and French languages. At Munich in 1936, he was the only other man in the room when Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain met and decided that Britain would not oppose Germany's move to annex the Sudetenland, beginning World War II.

Many years later, Schmidt served as the German ambassador to the Soviet Union. After Walter Dornberger became Chancellor of Germany in 1966, he instructed Schmidt to ask Vyacheslav Molotov to mediate a peace agreement between Germany and the Race, with which his predecessor, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, had started an ill-advised war. Molotov invited Schmidt to meet with Queek, the Race's ambassador to the Soviet Union, in his private Kremlin office in Moscow. The two ambassadors negotiated an end to hostilities.