English Translation

15 Report on the Yespräch with Dr. Guido Schmidt in his study in Moravian-Ostraufam Donnerstag, 7 August, noon: Dr. Schmidt began the "conversation with the fact that he recognized my negative attitude towards the "eichswerken Hermann Höring". He said, however, that his objective attitude towards me was to show that he had still not objected to my call to Witkowitz, I answered him in a factual manner and told him that he would probably not have unwritten the contract of transfer of business in place of General Director Kuchinka. Dr. Schmidt then asked me about my personal relationship with Dr. Novak and director Preinhelder, then I explained to him that I have seen the former in the whole of my work at Witkowitz not more than twenty times, Mr PreinhelJer, who in the same ten times in the four years at most, because I did not agree with the two gentlemen objectively, which I had also repeatedly openly emphasized to Mr. General Director Kuchinka. Dr. Schmidt came to spreen on his position in the Reichswerken and declared with emphasizing gesture that he had and was used to a very clear way in the "eichewerken and for Witkowitz, to enforce what he imagined Te. He stressed that he had a decisive influence on Mr Pleiger and that he was constantly listening to his decision-making work on Witkowitz, and that it was not possible for him to be dismissed by political decision-makers and that the assumption that he could be eliminated by political means was wrong. If he had wanted or still wanted to, he could apply for admission to the party, but he deliberately did not do so.