English Translation

6 Betr.: H o f m a n n, Auguşt, Oberregierungsrat, Prag vII, Stavitelská io. Occasionally the Aryanization of the company ARA is said to have been made by government councillor Dr. Hofmann to the current owner of the firm, K u n e r t, the desire to accept the trustee Z i n er t as a shareholder. Dr.Hofmann allegedly justified this demand by the fact that Z. Since Kunert rejected this desire, Dr.Hofmann Zienert allegedly tried to accommodate him as a senior official at the company ARA. This was also rejected by Kunert, since Z., according to Kunert is incapable of such a position. In order to finally compensate him for his commitment to Prague Germanism, he was awarded a severance allowance as trustee. Z. did not accept the company's proposal for a smelting of K 1 000 000._ and demanded that he be paid for K 200 000, which he was paid for. E.g., who now pretends to be a German, professed to be Czech before the establishment of the Protectorate. In the year l938 he was a member of the Czech Národní sjed- noceni. Formerly he was the official of the Sokol. The wife of the Z. is a Czech. At the invasion of the German troops on 15.9.1939 Z. because of the collapse of Czechoslovakia suffered a wine cramp. For example, insurance representative of the Riunione Adriatica di Sicurta in Prague II, Jungmannstrasse 4l. After the establishment of the Protectorate, he was appointed trustee of the company "ARA" Prag I, Obstgasse l. Z. has completed 28 different insurances as trustee of this company in order to secure the insurance commission as trustee. The current owner, Kunert, immediately terminated these insurances at the time of the takeover. In addition, Z. has signed a contract with the earlier owners of the company ARA, after which he should check the insurance of the firm ARA once a month. For this examination he received a monthly amount of K 2 500.- , which he also received in the months of October and November l 939, although he was already trustee of the enterprise. It is said that after six months, ARA's cash holdings of approx.K 2 O00 O00.- have been managed.