Lawyer and multifaceted and controversial thinker, born in Plettenberg (Westphalia) in 1888 after studying law in Berlin, Munich and Strasbourg doctor in 1910 and began his academic career in 1915 Political Romanticism (1919) Dictatorship (1921) and political Theology (1922) are among his first relevant publications. His scientific work will bear the fundamental theory of the Constitution (1928). This time, when Schmitt notable for his criticism of the parliamentary system and the Constitution of Weimar, his works are also the Guardian of the Constitution (1931), The Concept of the Political (1932) and Legality and legitimacy (1932). In 1933 he joined the Nazi party. Between 1933 and 1945 he is Professor of Law at the University of Berlin. After 1937 he gradually abandoned its positions as one of the leading representatives of the legal-political order of the Third Reich. In 1945 he is set apart from teaching, arrested and interrogated at Nuremberg. From 1950 live retired, but will continue to publish works such as The Nomos of the Earth, Theory II partisan or political theology. He died in his hometown in 1985.