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

I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family!

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

I'm a sailor, not a politician.

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.

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

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