STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 595, sig. 109-4/342

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36 Security Service RFsS Prague, 13.11.1939 SD-lead section Prague. B 2 PA f14/5 To the Secretary of State for Bohemia and Moravia, 4-group leader K.H. Fr a n k, Prague Czerninpalais. Betr.: D i c k, Walter, Dr., Privatdozent, born 1.6.1899 in Deutsch-Beneschau, residing Prague II., Apolinářská 14. Vorg.: Dortige Befrage vom 11.11,1939. Dr. Walter D i c k attended the Volksschule in German-Beneschau and later in Budweis the Staatsrealschule. In 1917 he passed the maturation examination there. 1917-1918 he served in the Tyrolean and Vorarlberg Mountain Artillery Regiment No. 14. After the overthrow he joined the Freischar "Volkswehr" in the south of Bohemia. Following the violent occupation of South Bohemia by the Czechs, Dr. Walter Dick fled to Austria and was only able to return to his homeland after an amnesty had been decreed. His stay in Austria was used by him to study Latin. In 1919 he passed the secondary examination. From 1919 to 1924 he was a regular listener of the Faculty of Medicine, in 1925 he obtained his doctorate "sub auspiciis" and worked at the Pathological Institute Prof. Since 1926, Dick has worked continuously at the surgical clinic Prof. S c h l o f f e r's, first as a volunteer doctor, then as a secondary physician and since 1931 as a clinical assistant. In 1936, he habilitated for surgery. In the summer of 1937, Dr. Dick worked for several weeks at the neurosurgical clinic Professor O l i v e c r o n a 's in Stockholm. b.w.