English Translation

Security Service of the Reichsführers-hf Prag-Bubentsch, 56 Sachsenweg SD-Leitsabteilung Prag Telesprecher 774-44 Ak PA 4368 To the personal speakers of the State Secretary at the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia -Obersturmbannführer Dr. Gies Prag. a I B e n z, Albert, Professor, born 19.7.1877 in Esslingen, Reichsdeutscher, residing Prague XI, Herrenhuter Strasse 4. Introduction: There - St.S.XI A - 18/42 - of 21.5.1942 Notes: - 3 - B e n z worked for many years as a builder in America and China. He was a building representative of a missionary society and gained a great deal of knowledge in the field of art history, which he completed in Prague by visiting lectures at the university. B., who married in Amerika, lives separate from his wife. His wife and son are still in America today. A daughter is married in Württemberg, while another son lives in Germany. B. is considered a stingy nerd, who collects the money for his last years and lives in the constant fear that he could not be adequately cared for in old age. The reason may be that he is not in a retirement pension and cannot enter such a pension due to his old age. B. is a bearer of the Golden Party badge and has personal acquaintances in leading party circles. By a close relative of him, where in the Wehrmacht a leading position is occupied, B. to the army building management and from there to the ground office in Prague, where he became head of the 'Department "Natur- und Denkmalschutz". Now B. together with the Reichsdeutscher H. K a u l from Dresden holds an auction sesnes b.w. St. rH/N8V-E© 141