Paul Schmidt

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For the chess player, see Paul Felix Schmidt, and for the former Australian rules footballer see, Paul Schmidt (footballer)

Paul Schmidt (1899-1970) was a translator in the German foreign ministry from 1923-1945. During his career he served as the translator for Neville Chamberlain's negotiations with Adolf Hitler over the Munich Agreement, the British Declaration of War and the surrender of France.

After the 1942 Dieppe Raid resulted in thousands of Canadian soldiers captured, Schmidt was in charge of their interrogations.

In 1947, he testified for the prosecution against the directors of I.G. Farben.

In 1951 he published a book entitled Hitler's Interpreter.^{OCLC 1122735}