Nils Schmid is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017.
In addition to his parliamentary work, Schmid has been serving as a Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Defence in the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz since 2025. From 2018 to 2025, he was the SPD parliamentary group’s spokesperson for foreign affairs.