English Translation

5 10 ses Mann, and his German assistant in the observatory here near Prague, Johannes Kapler, who crowned the joint work with the greatest knowledge of astronomy. It seems to me therefore a natural duty of gratitude to commemorate this extremely successful German-Scandinavian cooperation for the science here in Prague in the founding of our office. We all see this as a symbol of the task ahead of us, which is to be fulfilled here. In order to build on this all-encompassing bond, as head of the Nordic Society, I announce the Brahe Kepler Foundation of the Northern Society, which will be awarded each year to a worthy Northerner to study at this venerable and oldest German university. The Prague accountant will have the task of taking care of this student, whom we have awarded, in common with the Reich accountant in Lübeck. In addition to the sector of science, however, this inter-state work which has been carried out here for almost 3 l/2 centuries, at a time when German and Nordic cultural heritage could develop freely, should be an example and symbol of the future work in all areas of life. Once again, Bohemia and Moravia are facing a flourishing period in all branches of culture and economy, when after this victorious war peaceful relations have also returned to this country, of which in 1926 Mr Stegemann said that hegemony France has transformed it into a citadel of France. If, in the truest sense of the word, this foreign body, which threatens the empire, was called a "powder barrel" without removing a shot and thus avoiding the true horrors of war to the country, the peaceful task remains to fill us, through our work, to contribute our part to the fact that these old, beautiful, German Reichslandes again reflect on their great past in the vast Nordic settlement area and again consciously bearer and co-creator of a common Germani-