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The Etaaisiekuellles L a Reidisprotehioe in Duhmen and Mahcen. Eing.: 24.Mal 1943 Italy and Europe. X Lecture by Prof.H.J. Beyer on an internal event =.α d. d. zung der Reinhard Heydrich Stiftung am 21. Mai l943. Lrf (Kacriv) 1416.43 Carl Schmitt has developed the concept of the political from the Freund-Feinddistinction. For the evaluation of this category it is important that it does not - as would be assumed - owe its origin to ca-tholic thinking. Rather, it grew up Calvinian theology. Its first formulation took place on the ground of Rhenish Protestantism, whose reformed principle is unmistakable. In the Freund-Feind-Ünterscheidung, the whole inexorableness of Calvin's Geneva vibrates with it: while Lutheranism and the catholicism, which is strongly Germanized in litteleuropa, never deny their interest in the sinful man and above all never abandon him, Calvinisaus, as well as the Jesuits closely related to him, speak a radical dictate to whom there is doubt about the legal faith. Lutherism and German-German Catholicism /the latter above all again in the declaration/ see in the enemy of the right faith in the end still the human friend, while the counter-front strikes him in the book of life as not worthy of human dignity. If we admit that the spiritual and spiritual development of the German people was without doubt strongly influenced by the churches in the past, we must understand that this coinage was not uniform. It also did not follow proportionally to the denominational majority. While Catholicism in Baroque and Enlightenment reconciled large parts of the German people with the old church, the priesthood of the anti-reformational wing, which was based on principles and which was only the object of the restoration of the 19th century and its fruit: political Catholicism is based on this tradition. The political Catholicism, by the way, carried by converts and people from ethnic mixed marriages, never fully identifies with the fate of the German man. His politics is a policy of "catholic reservation". In protestan $\R-q}$