[Carl Schmitt documents: report on a conversation by anonymous source]

Notes on a talk of the unknown author with Schmitt, presumably on 11/29/1935. The author recollects: I always avoided to spend time with Schmitt and always refused to come when he invited me, what happened at least 10-15 times. In the late fall of 1935, after a session of the Academy of German law, I was invited by [Carl August] Emge to have dinner with him and after I agreed to it, Schmitt joined. That was the only time I have spent time with Schmitt apart from having to work together with him professionally. At the dinner, mostly Schmitt talked, a lot of bad gossip, for example about [Paul von] Hindenburg, [Alfred] Rosenberg, [Bernhard] Rust, [Wenzeslaus von] Gleispach, [Viktor] Bruns and [Alfred] Bäumler [another spelling used: Baeumler]. I tried not to talk to Schmitt, stayed only to hear and see the proof that he indeed is the intellectual, faithless anarchist I already took him for based on his writings. I could not avoid being asked by him why I was so silent and thus replied that I disagreed on the former matters and for me other questions where of importance. He asked me which ones and I named three: 1) The question of the proper solution of the problem of people and state, both domestically and regarding the fact that the German people is spread over 15 states in Europe. Schmitt laughed and told me that was a purely liberal question. 2) The question of the Church being political generally and of political Catholicism especially. Schmitt replied smiling there was no political influence of the Catholic Church. 3) The problem of the "Volksgemeinschaft" (national community) in its social stratification. Schmitt agreed that this indeed was a problem and provided several thoughts of his own on how to deal with it. As mentioned above, there is no author given, certain passages are underlined or marked.