Career
After his final exams and computer science studies Schmidt founded the software company WICE GmbH in 2001 together with four of his fellow students. Currently, Schmidt is the chief marketing officer of WICE GmbH.
Since 2008 he is the parliamentary group leader and Social Democratic Party of Germany"s speaker in the urban planning commission of Hamburg. Schmidt ran for the Hamburg state election, 2008 in voting district 1 (Hamburg-Mitte), resulting in 8.0 percent of the votes in his district.
He was elected into Parliament at the election of 2008.
A rerun for the Hamburg state election, 2011 was successful and Schmidt gathered 10.2 percent of the votes in the same district.
