Welcome to the Carl Schmitt Gesellschaft e.V.

On March 24, 1933, the Reichstag passed the law »To Eliminate the Distress of the People and the Reich«, the so-called Enabling Act. The basic rights and the parliamentary form of government of the Weimar Constitution were thus suspended. The dictatorship began to establish itself. The constitutional and international law expert Carl Schmitt, who until then had been fighting for his version of saving the Weimar Constitution through a national presidential system, reacted with one of the most notorious about-faces in political thought of the 20th century. Until 1936 he developed extensive journalistic activities to underpin the Nazi regime in terms of constitutional and international law.

The volume documents these treatises, written in the first four years of the Third Reich, by the internationally controversial and influential lawyer Carl Schmitt, thus placing the ongoing discussion about his involvement in the consolidation of National Socialist rule on a secure source basis. The dependent essays and articles published during this period as well as the monographs »Das Reichsstatthaltergesetz«, »State, Movement, People« and »National Socialism and International Law« were included. The volume is supplemented by some titles published after 1936 that are otherwise inaccessible. The volume concludes with references to individual writings and a bibliography of all of Schmitt’s works in the period from 1933 to 1944.