Albert Schmidt OSB (born 1948, Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German Benedictine monk and presiding abbot of the Beuronese Congregation, an association of eighteen mostly German or German-speaking Benedictine monasteries and convents, headed by Beuron Abbey in the upper Danube Valley.
This makes him the Congregation's highest ranking dignitary and a High Superior in church law terms.
In 1973 he was ordained a priest and in 1992 he became student secretary at the Kolleg St. Benedikt in Salzburg.
On 16 April 2008 he was made presiding abbot of the Beuronese Congregation by its 24th General Chapter,[1] succeeding Anno Schoenen (Maria Laach Abbey).
He was installed in this post by bishop Robert Zollitschon 19 April 2008 in the abbey church.