NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 213, sig. 110-4/59 Page 6 · 6 of 53
THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 213, sig. 110-4/59
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4» 5 monarchy he had occupied the dignity of a K.u.K. Kämmerer. Politically, Count K.n.k.y. was particularly prominent by the fact that he founded a conservative Volkapartei in the year l9ll. In contrast to the two co-defendants count K.N.k y has already been punished in court. On 7 May 1943 he was sentenced to a fine of IO0o RM for negligently illegal possession of weapons. Prince de R o h a n was born in England. His mother is from an English family, whereas his father is an Austrian citizen. Prince de R o h a n first attended a real school and then the cadets school in Moravian-Weisskirchen, after whose completion he entered into a riding regiment with which he moved into the First World War. In Russia, he became a fan of l9l6, but after two failed attempts to escape in March he was able to escape and continue his service until the end of the war in the Austrian army. At awards he received the big søberne bravery medal for officers, the Signum Laudis in bronze and in silver and the Military Cross of Merit 3rd grade. As a lieutenant general, he acknowledged the military service, The Defendant, who, according to his statement, had also maintained the English as an official alongside the Austrian nationality, after the establishment of the Czechoslovak Rerublik, allegedly known as an Englishman, not because he did not want to enter the Wehrmacht of the newly founded republic as an Austrian officer. Prince de R o h a n has not turned to a new profession after the end of his military career. Although he has set up a commercial gardening workshop in his home town of Chausnik, which is managed by a trained gardener, he followed with it, as he says, more of a hobby. Through his marriage, he is connected with the Hardtmuth family of manufacturers. Politically, Prince de Rh a n has held back in every way, according to his information, when war broke out, he was obliged, as an English national, not to leave the county without prior police approval and to report to the police once a week. At the end of 1994 he was sent to an internment camp, from which he was released in the autumn of 1942.