Moreover, he had a latent anti-Semitic attitude, which Gerald D. Feldmann describes as follows: "Schmitt shared the belief that Jews were overrepresented within the academic professions, and that the rôle that they played in politics, law, and the arts would have to be greatly limited, if not utterly eliminated.
Egli ritenne tuttavia che essi avevano diritto a un posto nella vita economica tedesca, e affermò che non v'era nessuna questione ebraica nell'economia".