[Carl Schmitt documents - Summary of his activities before and after the Nazi's rise to power]

Summary of information on Schmitt (his date/place of birth,places of occupational career/positions, marriages/wives, relationship with catholic church, political activities, points of view. Especially emphasized: changes in his views on Jews & on National Socialism: At first he honored Jews like Hugo Preuss for his independent spirit & worked together with his [half-]Jewish colleague [Erwin] Jakobi [Jacobi] on an expert's report for a legal dispute beween the cabinet of [Franz von] Papen and the Prussian cabinet of [Otto] Braun, later he renounced them, declared, he didn't know [Erwin] Jakobi was a Jew. At first he disapproved of Hitler, later embraced the National Socialist State/the political positions it held: Preussischer Staatsrat (Prussian Privy Council), member of the Akademie für Deutsches Recht (Academy of German Law), Vertreter der Hochschulkommission (representative of the academic committee) and a position of power in the Nationalsozialistischer Rechtswahrerbund (National Socialist Association of German Legal Professionals). In an example he's presented as not acting as a National Socialist: [Karl August] Eckhardt's testimony/ letter in response to Schmitt's list of designated participants/lecturers for a conference, a joint project of the Nationalsozialistischer Rechtswahrerbund (National Socialist Association of German Legal Professionals) & the Reichsministerium für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung (Reich Ministry of Science, Education and Culture). [Karl August] Eckhardt didn't approve of the majority of the professors chosen by Schmitt (he disapproved of [Johannes] Heckel, [Siegfried] Reicke, [Hans] Dölle, [Heinrich] Stoll, [Franz] Beyerle, [Werner]Weber and [Heinrich] Lange and only approved of [Georg] Dahm), as in his opinion they were no National Socialists. In the summary Schmitt is presented as choosing employees according to obvious factors, like Günther Krauss, a spokesperson of the catholic orientation, as new assistant.