Education
After finishing secondary studies in Szerb Antal Secondary Grammar School in 1972, she graduated as an economist from the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences (today Corvinus University of Budapest) in 1977.
After finishing secondary studies in Szerb Antal Secondary Grammar School in 1972, she graduated as an economist from the Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences (today Corvinus University of Budapest) in 1977.
She began to work as a payroll manager at the Budapest Directorate of the Hungarian State Railways (MÁV). In 1979 she joined the Hungarian Young Communist League (KISZ) staff, where she served as Secretary of the Youth Environmental Council between 1984 and 1989. She earned a doctorate in 1984.
In 1989, she was one of the founders of the Society of Hungarian Conservationists (MTVSZ), where she functioned as Chairperson until 2002 and from 2004 to 2008.
Beside that she was also Secretary of the Central and Eastern European Network of Non-governmental organizations Foreign the Enhancement of Biodiversity between 1994 and 1996. She was elected to the leadership of the European Environmental Bureau (EBU) in 1996, where she served as a vice-president between 2000 and 2006.
She was also Deputy Chairperson of the National Environmental Council three times (1997–1998, 1999–2000, 2006–2007). György Droppa and Schmuck were elected co-leaders of the party during its inaugural congress.
During the 1994 parliamentary election, she was a Member of Parliament candidate of the Agrarian Alliance (ASZ), in accordance with the two parties" agreement.
Following the failure 1998 parliamentary election, Schmuck resigned from her position and quit the party on 21 June 1998. After the 2002 parliamentary election, she was appointed Deputy Secretary of State for European Union Integration and International Relations in the Ministry of Environment and Water. She held that office until 2003.
She became Secretary of the National Council for Sustainable Development within the National Assembly in 2008.
Two years later she returned to MTVSZ. She participated in the foundation of the Politics Can Be Different (LMP). She served as secretary of the party"s national board for a short time in 2012.
She functioned as co-President of the party"s Ökopolisz Foundation from 2012 to 2015, alongside economist Péter Róna. She served as one of the recorders of the National Assembly between 6 May 2014 and 19 October 2015.
After that she became deputy leader of her party"s parliamentary group.
She was appointed Vice-Chairperson of the Committee on Budgets on 6 May 2014.
Schmuck was a founding member of several green political initiatives in the 1990s. Following the radical right-wing ideological turnout within the party, a number of environmentalist members, including Schmuck, decided to left the party and establish the Green Alternative (ZA) in June 1993.
From 1989 to 1993, she was a member of the Green Party of Hungary (MZP), where she was delegated to the 7-member presidency. In the 2014 parliamentary election, she was elected Member of Parliament.