Elizabeth Maria Alida Schmitz (20 May 1938 – 31 December 2024) was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA).

[2] She completed her secondary education at a girls school before spending a year working as an au pair in England, while studying for a lower certificate from the University of Cambridge.

[1][2] She was responsible for immigration and asylum policy, family law, youth advocacy, gambling, legal aid and nationality.

The most famous of them was Amsterdam tailor Gümüş [nl], who had to return to Turkey with his family after living and working in the Netherlands for many years.

[2] While in this position, she proposed legislation to pardon illegal immigrants who had been living in the country for six years, but this was blocked by the D66 and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).

[1][2] In 2016, an exhibit at the Museum Haarlem honoured the former mayors of the city, including Schmitz, Bernt Schneiders, Jaap Pop and Jan Reehorst.