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♂ Horst Adolph Louis Charles Schmid
aliasHorst Schmid
Record
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☆   German-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 80%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 4 1 5
Birth 29 April 1933
Age 91 years
First mandate 30 August 1971 → 52 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 38 years + 4 months
 
Mandate ended 37 years + 11 months ago (7 May 1986)
Special notes
None
 
Horst Adolph Louis Charles Schmid (1933– )
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
On October 27, 1977, Schmid's 21-year-old secretary, Victoria Breitkreusz, was shot and killed at the office by her ex-boyfriend, Gunther Hummel, who then committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart. Schmid, an Alberta Progressive Conservative minister, was not in the office when the incident occurred, as he was undergoing gall bladder surgery.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 14 8 4 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 5  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Marie J. Laing  f 
⊖ Kathleen Wright  f 
 		 ⊖ Gerrit J. (Joe) Radstaak  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 13,490 Votes: 9,232 Participation: 68.44% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
17		 Alberta
30 August 1971
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13056(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
38
PC
 1/4 3,913 42.75% +232 Loser:
SC
 3,681 40.21% Gerrit J. (Joe) Radstaak

Service: 3 years 6 months 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 14,080 Votes: 7,551 Participation: 53.63% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
18		 Alberta
26 March 1975
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12981(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
41
PC
 1/5 4,596 60.97% +3,255 Loser:
SC
 1,341 17.79% Gerrit J. (Joe) Radstaak

Service: 3 years 11 months 15 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 18,456 Votes: 9,984 Participation: 54.10% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
19		 Alberta
14 March 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12902(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
45
PC
 1/4 5,382 54.11% +3,019 Loser:
NDP
 2,363 23.76% Olga Blondheim

Service: 3 years 7 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 18,396 Votes: 12,484 Participation: 67.86% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
20		 Alberta
2 November 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12822(F) — 11 Jun 2023 17:37 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
49
PC
 1/5 6,606 53.14% +2,561 Loser:
NDP
 4,045 32.54% Kathleen Wright

Service: 3 years 6 months 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 24,172 Votes: 10,057 Participation: 41.61% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
21		 Alberta
8 May 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 12739(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
53
PC
 2/5 4,141 41.21% -93 Winner:
NDP
 4,234 42.14% Marie J. Laing

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
The Honourable Dr. Horst A. L. Schmid, ECA		 29 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Horst Schmid		 29 Apr 2024

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