GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 565, sig. 110-4/413

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English Translation

-- 15 -- So the first part of my presentation, namely the BOSCO case, is closed and I come to the Z. Part of my communication on the case of Š t e l c l - Boskowitz: There is l938/39 in Boskoitz as usual a Jewish liqueur production and wine shop. The Jew is careful and suspects the ke coming March 15th l939 and thinks it is better to disappear in time and seek a buyer for his property. There is also the Czech Rostislav Štelcl, who acquires the Jewish property. The negotiations are a little lengthy, the purchase contracts cannot be completed, approved and entered into the land register quickly and all of a sudden the 1 5th of March 1939 is there and already the German authorities have a significant word to say and on them depends the approval of the schor made and finished and paid purchase contracts. In this emergency and forced situation, a good friend advises the Czech Štelcl to take a German into the otherwise Czech company quickly per Forma and as a poster. And also invents a suitable German in the person of the OTTO E s t e l b e r g e r, once a policeman in the Jewish community of Boskowitz, then a merchant, various trustees according to l939 and also SA-man, but not a party member, because he was innocently attached to a Jewish changeling years ago and he is thus officially listed as the father of a half Jew. So a very versatile and experienced businessman and folk comrade. And this Otto Estelberger is also ready to assist the Czech Rostislav STEICL in his Bedrägniss and against corresponding share of the net profit ax of the company Štelcl to obtain the approval of the German authorities to the purchase contracts already made with the former Jewish owner. The business is coming about. It is agreed between the new companies Estelberger- Štelcl in a German notarial law firm, but. the conditions laid down in it appear even to the lawyers at the Oberlandrat in Brno to be too favorable for the new shareholder of the Czech company and so amendments must be re-arranged and finally comes to the final social contract. Otto Estelberger becomes "silent partner" of the Czech