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

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Copy. 58 Supplement C JOSef RICKER. Officer of the District Health Insurance Institute in Brno. Brno, September 14, 1939. To the district management Brno of the working front department: Rechisberatung. in Brinn. Your kind invitation to transfer my service to the district health insurance institution Brno, together with the Central Social Insurance Institute in Prague, to your esteemed organisation, gives me a renewed lut and moral support to tackle the bi-nun-managed life struggle for German honor and work place for the repeat of the time. I would therefore like to make a brief comment in the following, as far as the circumstances permit, in order to guide you on my facts. I joined the practice of an official of health insurance in lgll at the District Health Insurance Institute in Tetschen a.d.Elbe, where I also returned to the world after the World War I, from 2 August 19l4 to l8,ll.19l8 on the front - wounded twice, 6 times marked for bravery - and where in 1927 as director of the Central Social Insurance Institute to Prague as a German for the organisażbon of the health and invalidity insurance bel the German directors of the then republic,murde. This service rezsak,which kept me from the family and the upbringing of my three children /2 boys, l Müdchen/fernhalten, I left in l931 by the appointment as director of the district health insurance institution Karlovy Vary, which was appointed by the Central Social Insurance Office in Prague in accordance with the provisions of §.69 desetzes No.22l/1924. Political moves against my person from the German Social Democrats, whose litts I had to be formulae over the ranks of Prague /ZsvA/ myself, led to my transfer from Karlovy Vary to Aussig a.d.Eibe again to the leading position as director of this institution, which was also carried out by the Central Social Insurance Institute Prague with my consent. From the outside, I was partly affected by my illness by the conditions given, partly by Prague, and partly by my