SCHMITT

Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) was a German jurist, political theorist, and authoritarian conservative critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanism. Best known for defining politics as the distinction between friend and enemy, he supported Nazism and authored influential works like 'Political Theology' (1922), 'The Concept of the Political' (1932), and 'Constitutional Theory' (1927). He studied law in Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg, earning his doctorate in 1915, and analyzed the Weimar Republic's constitution.