Hans Schemm

Hans Schemm was a Christian and he admired Martin Luther. He joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and was head of the National Socialist Teachers' League and was Bavarian Minister of Education and Culture.

Quotes

 * “It is henceforth the goal of the Education Ministry that every child in Bavarian schools shall be made familiar with the principles of the Christian and national state.... Religious instruction is nothing other than service to the soul of children. Faith in God and the personality of the teacher must be expressed in a realistic instruction filled with religious sincerity.”, Hans Schemm, 1933.


 * “Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland!”, a slogan by Hans Schemm.


 * “Our confession to God is a confession of a doctrine of totality.... To give ultimate significance to the totalities of race, resistance and personality there is added the supreme totalitarian slogan of our Volk: 'Religion and God.' God is the greatest totality and extends over all else.”, Hans Schemm.


 * “... we claim one thing for ourselves: that we place the great fundamental idea of Christianity in the center of our ideology [Ideenwelt] - the hero and sufferer Christ himself stands in the center.”, Hans Schemm.


 * “What went for Luther goes for us as well: only through the mirror of our blood and our race are we able to see God as he must be seen.”, Hans Schemm.


 * “Luther's engagement against the decomposing Jewish spirit is clearly evident not only from his writing against the Jews; his life too was idealistically, philosophically antisemitic. Now we Germans of today have the duty to recognize and acknowledge this.”, Hans Schemm.


 * “We wish for nothing as ardently as a powerful Protestant Church which stands on the foundations prepared by the great Reformer Martin Luther. ...”, Hans Schemm.