I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy...
The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.
I was member of the Diet as long as it existed until May 1933.
I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.
Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and...
Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.