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Prag-Bubentsch, 29. 6. 19444 13 Security Service of the Reichsführer-4 Sachsenwog S Srrerpetes Fernsprochor 774-44 III S Hn./Ge. iiinisteramt It is required that these persons be subject to the obligation of the Minister in the case of wide sections.: -1. JUL 1944 To the indicated head of the ministerial office -Standartenführe Ministerialrat Dr. G i e s Prag. Czerninpalais. Betr.: Dr. Gerolf Count C o u d e n h o v e - K a l e rgi. Preliminary note: Letter from the Wehrmacht authorised representative to the Reichsprotektor and commander in the Bohemian and Moravian Wehrkreis dated 17.6.1944 Abt. II a/R Az. 21 Nr. 46o/44. Anlg.: - 2 - The process there is returned. Count Coudenhove-Kalergi is the brother of the founder of the Pan-Europa-Union. Born in 1896 at Ronsperg Castle/Sudetenland as the son of a purely German-born father and a pure-blooded Japanese mother. l9l5 he moved as a volunteer to the Austrian army and was awarded several times as reserve officer, among others with the EK II class. After finishing his studies and his doctorate to Dr. jur. At the Japanese embassy he accepted the position of consultant, which he had innev until l939. Since l925 Coudenhove-Kalergi married Sophie Countess Pálffy ab Erdöd and has four children. Count Coudenhove-Kalergi gained certain merits during the liberation struggle of the Sudeten Germandom by supporting the legal struggle of The Sudete German Party through his intergovernmental connections. In March 1938 he and his wife became members of the SdP. The political attitude of Coudenhoves-Kalergi, however, appears in a twilight, since he also appeared at the same time in a list of members of the Pan-European Union, although with the political b.w. SL.M.T2-226b/41 191