Hans Christian Schmidt
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Hans Christian Schmidt is a danish politician and has been the Minister for transportation. A teacher by profession, he was the Danish
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 Minister of Food from 2004 to 2007. Before that, he was the Minister for the Environment
Minister for the Environment (Denmark)
Minister for the Environment of Denmark is the politically appointed head of the Danish Ministry of the Environment, and a member of the Cabinet...

 from 2001. He is a member of the Liberal Party, and has been a member of the Folketinget (parliament) since the 1994 Danish parliamentary election.

Schmidt was born to Holger and Ingrid Schmidt, who lived and worked on a farm. He was a school teacher in Vojens
Vojens
Vojens Municipality , was a municipality in the former South Jutland County on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality, which existed from 1970 to 2006, covered an area of 298 km², and had a total population of 16,792...

until 1984 before entering government. He is a long time resident of the town of Vojens in southern Denmark (Jutland).
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