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

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

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

I could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in this world war the Fuehrer refuses to allow me to serve as a soldier.

Many years before, I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need.

I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries.

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