English Translation

V/ Der Gauleiter und Reichsstatthalter Reichenberg, 5 December 1941 in the Sudetengau Reichsstallhalterei L 1000/35 - St. Bürg das Staa sfekretües bo aTe.mnokes Herrn in Bohmen uno Mahren. State Secretary Eing.: 16.DEZ.1941 K.H. Fran k Prag 71412 Czernin Palais Lieber Karl ! At my request, the renowned sculptor Oswald H o f m a n n from Schmiedeberg, who worked up to a prestigious position in Munich, was envisaged by the Reichsminister für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung as a professor for the Reichenberg branch of the Prague University Institute for Fine Arts. The negotiations, however, have broken down because the artist fears that he will not be able to give up those suggestions which, in his view, only the active art of a big city can offer. Since I am interested in bringing Hofmann into closer contact with the Sudetengau, I ask you to determine whether he could not be called to the Prague University Institute of Fine Arts as a professor of sculpture. As much as I know, he would make such a vocation. / Heil Hitler ! lei Lamuryr, St. S.-214/4