# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-schmitt
# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:35:55.924Z

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description: "A jurist who diagnosed liberalism's fragility, then prescribed dictatorship. His theories on sovereignty and the state of exception still echo through law schools worldwide, though the cure he championed — joining the Nazi Party in 1933 and giving it intellectual cover — casts a long shadow over every page."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Carl Schmitt was born 11 July 1888 in Germany and built a career dismantling the philosophical foundations of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanism. In 1933 he joined the Nazi Party and deployed his legal theories to justify the regime, holding posts including the Prussian State Council, the Academy for German Law, and president of the National Socialist Association of Legal Professionals. By 1936 he had fallen from favour with senior Nazi officials and was stripped of most party positions. He died 7 April 1985, his work inseparable from that collaboration. Since the 1990s his ideas have found new life in China — scholars there coined "Schmitt Fever" to describe the intensity of academic interest — and in Russia and the United States since the 2000s, where his diagnosis of liberal weakness is studied even as the cure remains indefensible.