Paul Schmidt (23 June 1899 - 21 April 1970) was a 20th-century German diplomat and translator. He entered Germany's Diplomatic Corps in 1923 as an interpreter and gradually became Germany's senior translator for the English and French languages. At the Munich Conference in 1938, he was the only other man in the room when Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain met and decided that Britain would not oppose Nazi Germany's move to annex the Sudetenland in the days before World War II.