STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1648, sig. 109-4/1403

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Cll copy. Expert report on the archives of the Czech University in Prague. The University Archives have a value that no one else has to show in Great Germany, because with the help of the matriculations - these are volumes that have been entered year after year by newly matriculated listeners - it is possible to separate German and Czech listeners and to determine the importance of Prague University for Sudeten Germanism over the course of the centuries. I therefore allow myself to apply for the following: l./ Repatriation of the university archive from the premises of the Czech University to the Karolinum, where the archive was formerly located, or in premises which are in German possession and would ensure a more expedient establishment of the archive. 2./ With a review of whether the archives are complete, the sectional councillor Dr.Bergl, Friedland, an excellent expert on this archive, would be entrusted. 3./ With the presiding director, the senior commissary would be responsible for the archives of the ministry of the interior and private lecturer at the philosophical faculty, Dr.Anton Blaschka, Prag-Smichov, Husgasse 5. 4./ As soon as a sufficient number of German civil servants are employed in the archives of the Ministry of the Interior, Dr. Blashka, currently the only German official in the archive, should be appointed full-time to lead the university archive while at the same time giving him a teaching assignment or an honorary professorship for Latin philology of the middle age. 5./ In this position, Dr.Blashka could prepare a critical edition of the important documents and the oldest matrices, which is essential for the 600th anniversary of 1948. Dr.Anton Blaschka was born on 7 October 1892 in Oberprausnitz, took part in the campaign in Italy and Serbia, was awarded with the great silver medal of bravery.