Jürgen Schmieder (born 23 June 1952) is a politician, originally from East Germany, who came to prominence during the months immediately preceding German reunification.

At the end of January in 1990 he became Chairman (leader) of the short lived German Forum Party (DFP / Deutsche Forumpartei) in East Germany where in 1990 he sat as a member of the country's first (and last) freely elected People's Chamber (Volkskammer).

[2] Schmieder was born during the early years of the German Democratic Republic in a small town roughly halfway between Leipzig and Dresden.

He then worked for a year as a project leader with the Leipzig-Grimma Chemical Plant Construction operation before returning to the Technological University, where he was employed, in the first instance, as a research assistant, and then from 1983 till 1984 as a development engineer.

[1] The DFP joined with other small liberal/centrist parties, forming the Association of Free Democrats (Bund Freier Demokraten) to contest the East German national election on 18 March 1990.

[2] In October 1990 Schmieder was not among the 144 deputies in the chamber who, as part of the German reunification process, became members of the Bundestag (National Assembly) of the reunited Germany.