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Ch Sicherheitsdienst Rry Prag, 19 February 1940. SD-Leitabsehnitt Prag B - VA: 994 Office of the State Secretary Lg. gme at the Reichspeotektor 2ot.a1040 in Bohemia and Moravia. Eing.: 21.FEB.1940 at donos Indigrchner. To 16/5.40 1248 Tgb. Mr. Mr, State Secretary at the Imperial Protector in 26/Bohemian and Moravia, i-Group Leader Fr a n k, Prague. Eetr.: Deutsche Volksbildungsstätte Prag (Besetzung der Geschäftsführung).Vorg.: Ohne. Anlg.:1. Dr. Emil Pr a n z e 1 was appointed at the beginning of 1939 as the managing director of the "Urania" people's education house in Prague. He was a former Social Democrat and had only left this party at the beginning of 1938, and then approached the SdP. Despite this social democratic past, Franzel was taken over as a business leader when the Volksbildungshaus "Urania" was remodelled at the German Volksbildu cation Centre in Prague. In his Marxist period, he was very strongly exposed to the Nazi German Empire. His anti-rich opinion was expressed in particular in his 1936 book "Abendländische Revoluzionen. Geist und Fate Europas" (Verlag Eugen Prager, Preßburg). In January 1940, the NSDAP District Leader in Prague was referred to by the Prague NSD-Lecturer's Association of these earlier statements by Fr. The District Leader referred to this as \O-2-