Armin Schmid

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Armin Schmid (born January 7, 1916 in Oberegg ; † March 8, 2000 in Heiden , entitled to live in Oberegg) was a Swiss politician .

Life

Schmid completed his watchmaking apprenticeship in Sierre and took over the business of his parents in 1939 because his father could no longer cope with the work due to an illness.

From 1946 to 1949 he was a district councilor in Oberegg and was also a councilor for the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden . From 1949 to 1950 he was the idle and from 1950 to 1956 ruling district captain and also a councilor. After five years as a district judge (1963–1967), he was also elected to the executive branch and was thus from 1976 to 1973 state witness . He was responsible for the military and vocational training at cantonal level . With his expansion of the apprenticeship system, he succeeded in locating commercial and industrial companies in the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden , and among other things he attracted the largest company at the time to Oberegg.

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