Ferenc Schmidt (6 November 1941 – 25 December 2011) was a Hungarian politician of German descent and was a

member of the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the rep ...

(MP) from 1998 to 2010.

Career

He was born in

Mór Mór (german: Moor) is a town in Fejér County, Hungary. Among the smaller towns in the Central Transdanubia Region of Hungary, it lies between the Vértes and Bakony Hills, in the northwestern corner of Fejér County. The historic roots of th ...

Fejér County Fejér ( hu, Fejér megye, ) is an administrative county ( comitatus or megye) in Central Hungary. It lies on the west bank of the river Danube and nearly touches the eastern shore of Lake Balaton. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties ...

, on 6 November 1941. He finished Dózsa György Economical Secondary School in 1960. He served as a representative of the German minority in the Assembly of Mór Local Government since 1994. He was also a member of the German Minority Municipality from that year. He served as chairman of the German Regional Minority Self-Government of Fejér County between 2007 and 2011. He was a candidate for position of mayor of Mór in 2002. He was a deputy in the National Assembly as a

Fidesz Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (; hu, Fidesz – Magyar Polgári Szövetség) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Hungary, led by Viktor Orbán. It was formed in 1988 under the name of Alliance of Young ...

member from 1998 to 2010.

Awards

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Sándor Wekerle Sándor Wekerle (14 November 1848 – 26 August 1921) was a Hungarian politician who served three times as prime minister. He was the first non-noble to hold the office in Hungary. Biography He was born in Mór to a Danube Swabian family, in ...

Prize'' (2007)

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Országgyűlés biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schmidt, Ferenc 1941 births 2011 deaths Fidesz politicians Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1998–2002) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2002–2006) Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (2006–2010) Hungarian-German people People from Mór