English Translation

Copy ! 3 Secret State Police Prague II, 5 February 1943, State Police Headquarters Prague Bredauer Gasse 20. B.No. 79/43 g - II B 1 - To the Higher 4- and Police Leader 4-Group Leader and State Secretary K.H. F ra n k, PragIV, Czernin-Palais. Betr.: Dr. Kaspar Graf von P r e y s i n g, b. on 19.3.03 in Landshut, residing in Bürgstein near Haida. Vorg.: Oral lecture by il-Ostubaf. Dr. G e r k e. Anl.: Without. The state police offices Berlin and Karlsruhe informed that Preysing was in personal contact with the Bishop of Berlin, Count Preyssing, and had strong relations with former officials of the Baden state parliament faction of the central party. The investigation revealed that since 1940 Preysing has been acting as "central director of the Prince Kinsky's property administration in Prague and maintains an apartment in Prague XII, Pštros-Gasse 7. Preyssing is the son of Count Emanuel Preysed and his wife Maria née Kinsky. The Bishop of Berlin is his father's brother. The family comes from a strictly Catholic Bavarian nobility and is still strictly church-like. Kaspar Graf von Preysing has been active in the former Bavarian People's Party and is currently taking power in 1933 to Bürgstein near Haida. He was suspected of having had a connection with Otto Strasser and was to be a member of the "German Pront against the Hitler system", which, with the help of Otto Stras-