English Translation

Security service of the Reichsführer-4 Prag-Bubentsch, March 25, 1943. SD section Prague Sachsenweg telex 774-44 III A g.Rs.SA 66 Secret / Secret .8./257/43 To the fu3 Mr. State Secretary at the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, -Group leader K.H. Fr a n k, Büvo das Staa eh elürs Prag. Loa Feld oupieline in Uühm Elg 26.MRZ.1943 .on Betr.: Alleged intention to resign by Minister-Hruby. The following is a note with the request for information, according to which Minister Hruby was supposed to have carried himself some time ago with resignation intentions: A guarantor had various meetings with the Moravian landowner Klimeß and was able to find out that Klimess had several talks with Minister H Ruby in the building of the association for agriculture and forestry in Prague, Wenceslas Square, in the course of the last two months. In their course, Hruby asked Klimes whether he would not be willing to take over as his successor the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. The statements made by Klimeß showed that these debates took place "in private", but it was suggested that the chairman of the government, Dr.Krejêi and Minister Moravec, also knew that Hruby had such discussions with Klimess. Klimeß, who is closely friends with Minister Hruby and is also said to have contributed to a significant part of the Hrubys political course, gave him all b.w. St.S.E3-9e/43g 141