Wide repercussions were anticipated today as a result of the resignation of Prof. Karl Schmidt, outstanding German law authority, from the Berlin University faculty and other posts on charges that at various times in the past he has been pro-Jewish, pro-Catholic and pro-Liberal, according to the Havas News Agency.
The resignation was forced by veteran Nazis who declared that Schmidt, despite his present party affiliations, was suspect in view of his pre-Nazi record.
Schmidt’s resignation was announced officially without any hint that Nazi attacks had forced him out of his offices as constitutional law professor at Berlin University, Prussian State Councillor, Director of the Nazi Law League’s scientific section and president of the German Law Professors’ group.
The communique said he was obliged to quit because of poor health and many outside occupations.
Repeated attacks on Prof. Schmidt have appeared recently in the journal of the Hitler political police. It has been charged he joined the Nazi Party after 1933, and that he staked his law career on the aid of Jewish professors of Bonn University, now in exile.
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