English Translation

In Pressburg, too, the newly founded Faculty of Forestry was affiliated not with the University but with the Technical University. However, the reclassification of the agricultural high school Tetschen-Liebwerd to the German Technical University of Prague is mainly necessary for reasons of equity for traditional and political reasons. Here it is necessary to repeat briefly what has already been done in the application to the Reicheminister für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksebildung (Minister for Science, Education and People's Education), on the basis of the reclassification of the Agricultural University Tetschen-Liebwerd as a Faculty of Agriculture to the German Technical University. The existence of Prague universities has always been an important link in the assessment of political power in this area. Up to the year 19863 there was only one technical university in Prague with a German language of instruction. In this year, under the increasing political pressure of the Czech population, important subjects were also presented in Czech language for the first time and already in l869 a complete separation into two independent universities, a German and a Czech technical college. Since that time, the Czechs have been striving to make the development of their own Zechnische Hochschule a measure of their share of power, because they were aware that the high schools in particular are very much in the focus of their people and of neighbouring countries. The Czech Technical University excelled in its design and in 38180