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

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

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

I'm a sailor, not a politician.

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

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

What would you do if your country's welfare depended on labor? When a ship is in a storm it requires one captain.

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.