“Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.”
“I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.”
“I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.”
“The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.”
“I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.”