English Translation

Eduard Rittershaus München 9 Munich, 20.3.1939. Methfesselstr. l0 2 State Secretary Karl-Hermann F r a n k Reichenberg = = == = = : = = Dear Ka r l ! I warmly congratulate you on your appointment as State Secretary. It means the recognition and coronation of your long-standing hard work and is at the same time an expression of the high trust that the Führer puts in you for the upcoming construction work. I wish you with all my heart that this may be happy. I am particularly pleased with your success for factual reasons, since I used to work in the popular movement. Our life from Hartenstein has brought us often enough into contact and conflict with the then masters of the country. In the years l929/30 I was in contact with the current Chief Adjutant Brückner at the large Gdansk exhibition of the German Foreign Institute Stuttgart and later for a long time with the Baltic Association in the Enlightenment War on Germanism in Eastern Europe, whereby the work led me throughout Germany. Your dear greeting of 6.12.38 with your picture came to me really surprising in view of your workload and I was very pleased. All the best for the future! Heil, Hitler! Eduard Rittevhans