GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1065, sig. 110-11/3

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1030 irS On behalf of the bourgeois parties I belonged to the monitoring committee of the Karlovy Vary Hospital and thus gained an insight into the activity R. He went of course completely with his red party-goers and could not oppose the political tendencies of his comrades, although I sometimes had the impression that he would have liked to do so. To the extent that this was possible with his party-like bond, he expressed himself to a greatest possible objectivity, and I cannot remember any action on my part which could be regarded as ugliness or meanness against the German-conscious circles and persons. I explained this to myself at the time and still see it today that he was not Social-Democrat within. The dark point in R. Vorleben is his behavior on the occasion of the sudeten German liberation. R. was no longer in Karlovy Vary at that time, but head of the hospital in Aussig and I only know this matter from occasional reports, so that I do not see clearly. In the decisive days of the overthrow R. The assumption that R. wanted to enrich himself personally does not come to an end, but he is blamed for wanting to "save" these funds for the Central Social Insurance Institute and thus for the Czechs. Personally, I do not want to rule out the fact that R.'s behaviour at that time was due to his fear of the adverse poles of his transition to social democracy, that he lost his head about it and thought that he would no longer find a place in the liberated Sudetenland, which is why he would have to remain in the rest of Bohemia and Moravia. I cannot put up with a verdict on this matter because I know too little of the facts and circumstances involved, but I am convinced that an expedited investigation could quickly bring about a clarification. R, is a party comrade and, to my knowledge, has requested an investigation of this matter by the Party Court itself. If I might recommend something, it would be necessary to order the speeding up of this pertei-trial investigation, which could soon come to a result according to the existing pleadings and files and after a few witnesses were interrogated. The clarification would be needed in order to decide on the re-use of R. at the head of the health insurance system. R. is technically one of the most capable civil servants in the field of health insurance, highly qualified and has a good organizational capacity. In the absence of suitable people, his excretion is to be booked today as a loss. During the time of his activity in Brno, R. also I know only of occasional conversations - some inadvertently bogan@en have in which he in the aspiration 41235