In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.

I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.

I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent.