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Page 2 to note of the file v.16.9.1939 (I./Ku.) 1 Name Ritzenthaler (Head of the civil servants' association in Vienna) is mentioned, for me it is clear that the same forces are at work at the foundation of this company, which are already known in connection with the Ritzenthaler action. Gavenat justified his efforts to establish a new society with the will of the Secretary of State Frank, who is said to have given the SS-Oberführer Dauser and Dr. Brecht commitments in this regard about 3 weeks ago. Gavenath, however, later stated in the conversation that a note from the Secretary-General Frank on the meeting with SS-Upperführers Dauser und Dr. Brecht said that he had made him a bit stupendous. Gavenat also expressed his surprise at the fact that without his knowledge I had been appointed trustee of a housing cooperative and the sole board member of a residential housing association. He literally said that it was like this here, like with the police apartments, the Ministry of Labour is trying to find suitable carrier companies and then suddenly the SS came and piled everything up. So it is also in the Protectorate, where he strives to create the conditions for a healthy residential construction activity, while the Ss in Iglau is already building. I tried to put myself on a good foot with Gavenat and explained to him that we did not want to work against him in the Protectorate, but had to support each other. Since the new establishment of a housing company is not necessary because of the two German cooperatives, I suggested that he try to free the 4,0o.ooo Reichsmark requested by the Reichsarbeitsministerium for the companies under the SS. He then replied to me that I would like to speak to Fischer-Diskau myself in order to clarify the matter. In the further discussion I noted that Gavenat for the newly founded society has tried to find the site on Letna, for which our planning is already with Proffessor Speer for approval. I told him about this planning. His question as to whether the apartments on this estate were intended only for Gestapo-Béamte, I denied and explained, that here are essentially intended for the Germans transferred to the Protectorate, i.e. also for the officials of the Reichsprotektor. On a further question from Gavenat, I explained that the Statssecre- tär Frank of this construction project by the SS-Oberführer von Gottberg and by a short lecture from me, had been officially informed of the visit of the ground office by State Secretary Frank and that our work was approved by the State Secretary. The trustee of the non-profit Prague, 16 September 1939. Settlement cooperative in Prague regulated Gencusonschaft with limited liability 4