When Hans Curt Schmidt was born on 2 March 1794, in Wiera, Ziegenhain, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany, his father, Henrich Schmidt, was 38 and his mother, Maria Krauss, was 30. He married Anna Elisabeth Jox on 12 February 1826, in Wiera, Ziegenhain, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He died on 25 September 1861, in his hometown, at the age of 67.