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HUBERT LAUNITZ /Dr.Alfred Schmued/ 4 PRAG Hauptpost, Postfachl98 Prag, 6.XI.1942. Telephone: Kreditanstalt der Deutschen, Nr. 626-41 /8-9 Uhr/. Mr. State Secretary K.H. Fr a n k , L.J des Staaissekcetärs a TT P_r_a_g_IV._ bet Rpimpeoehior Czerninpalais. in Bohemia and mahren. Eing.: - 6.NOV. 1942 Dear Secretary of State, I examine the Egerländer ancestry of Major Ferdinand von Schill. I allow myself to share the rather modest results of my rather laborious and time-consuming work: Major von Schil was born on the Wilmsdorf estate near Dresden in 1776. His father Johann Georg Schill was born on the 3rd of Jan. l736 in Kokaschitz /Pfarramt Tschelief near Weseritz/. His parents Thomas and Margareta Schill were farmers in Kokaschitz. Johann Georg Shill entered the Saxon army during the 7-year war, brought it there to the Rittmeister and received the Reichsadel in the year l768. He married a freewoman of Tragau and acquired the estate Wilmsdorf near Dresden, where the later Major Ferdinand von Schill was born in 1776. After l800, the name Schill no longer appears in the matriculations of the parish of Tschelief. Johann Georg Schill - i.e. the father of Major Schill – had 2 sisters, namely Maria Schill, born on March 5th, l740 and Margarethe Schill born on August 29th, 1743. Johann Georg Shill is said to have died after an unreliable source on February 28th in Puncau /?/ near Tetschen. According to a certain study council Dürr in Linz, Südtirolerstr. l8, one of the guest houses in Chelief,Weseritz district, still belongs to "Dem Schill". Whether the name is related to the Schill family is not yet clear. St FG-546/42