Q. When did you matriculate?
A. In February 1910.
Q. What did you study then?
A. I didn’t study, but four days later I went to the First Foot Artillery Regiment in Koenigsberg in East Prussia, and I joined that regiment as a cadet.
Q. Witness, what was your position in the Third Reich in 1933?
A. I was State Secretary at that time; at first, it was not called a ministry. It was called the Reich Commissar’s Office, because formal measures for the formation of a ministry had to be considered both with the Reich President as well as the Reichstag. At first, Goering was Reich Commissar and I was Deputy Reich Commissar for Aviation. I think it was in March that the Reich Ministry was formed; and at that moment I became State Secretary.
[March 12]
Q. * * * Witness, is it correct to say that in your capacity as Inspector General you had to make trips abroad too, that is, you had to take care of the comradely relationship with the air forces of other countries?