FUNK: No; I received that when I was still press chief of the Reich government.
DR. SAUTER: You did not get it as Minister?
FUNK: No.
DR. SAUTER: How long were you a National Socialist deputy of the Reichstag?
FUNK: For just a few months.
DR. SAUTER: From when to when?
FUNK: From July 1932 to February 1933. I did not get another seat, because the Chairman of the Party, the chairman of the parliamentary group, Dr. Frick, informed me that, by a directive of the Führer, only the old Party members would receive mandates; and I had received a state position in the meantime.
DR. SAUTER: Witness, in regard to the laws which are of particular importance in this Trial, such as the Enabling Act, which practically eliminated the Reichstag; the law forbidding political parties; or the law for the unity of Party and State—in respect to all these laws, which were in preparation for later developments, were you still a member of the Reichstag at that time or had you already ceased to be one?
FUNK: I was no longer a Reichstag deputy. But even so, I considered these laws necessary.
DR. SAUTER: That is another question. But you were no longer a Reichstag deputy?