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

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-- 16 -- Rostislav Š t e l c l in Boskowitz, namely with a company contribution of sage und schreibt RM l.O00.-- / one thousand / which deposit is secured on the properties in the first place in the land registers, therefore bomb-proof and holds the contractual claim for an annual share of RM 3.600.- / sage RM three thousandsix hundred / whereby Estel berger still commits itself to devote his influence as a German to the benefit of the Czech company for larger allotments and for example to such interventions with the authorities in the name of the Fa. It is therefore a typical contract, as unfortunately many German people enjoyed it so much after March 15, 1939. The Boskowitzer OttO Estelberger has just succeeded in setting up such a favorable social contract for itself. Here performanceRM_l.00Q.==_there_counterperformance_share_RM_3.600.=_pro_year and also various ancillary rights, such as the right to enter the company as a "public partner" on demand. That would be all right and beautiful and after all none of it concerns third. The Czech Stelcl, should do with his money what he wants, when notaries and authorities find themselves disguised as I have always called such social contracts, gg good-hot and approve. That was and is none of my business. But suddenly the Czech Štelcl has bad luck, it gets him the GESTAPO, keeps him with him for a long time, all his fortune is collected in favor of the Reich. The business must continue and the silent partner Otto Estelberger is appointed as provisional managing director. But suddenly it falls to someone at the property office in Prague, in whose cynicalness the company has now passed,'that for this company a real trustee has to be appointed and of all people find the gentlemen at the Prague office, than the Brno Ing.E. BECK, formerly elevator manufacturer, now director of the company. FLOHR- Berlin and trustees of BOSKO in Boskowitz. From what considerations the gentlemen at the Pragueer Vermögen- amt found me to be a suitable trustee for a liqueur production and wine-gross- action, is still unexplainable to me, but it has happened and I became trustee of the company Štelcl in Bosowitz, by the way beside BOsKO. When I got the installation certificate and got some information and especially