Although most Anglo-American scholars rate “The Concept of the Political” as occupying a central place in Schmitt’s work, this may simply be the result of the historical fact that this work was the first of Schmitt’s essays to be published in English. In 1921, Schmitt became a professor at the university of Greifswald, where he published his essay “Die Diktatur” (“On Dictatorship”), in which he discussed the foundations of the newly-established Weimar Republic, emphasising the office of the Reichspräsident.
Schmitt was born as the son of a businessman in Plettenberg, Westphalia on Jhe studied state theory and law in Berlin, Munich and Strassburg and took his graduation and State promotion exams in Strassburg in 1915. Carl Schmitt was a controversial German catholic intellectual and legal theoretician with ties to the Nazi ideology and party.