STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1805, sig. 109-5/33 (damaged)

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Sicherheits.dienst RF4 Prag=Bubentich, 15.5.1941 SD-Ceitseil Prag Sachlenweg Fernfprecher 77444 B 5 - PA.863 Büco des S.aatsfekcetärs be a Reichsprotekto in Böhmen une mahcen. Eing.: 16. MAY 1941 To the Tah. N. State Secretary at the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia 4-group leader K.H. Fr a n k Prag Betr : Z e j d a, Karel, Fabrikant, 18/7.47. born 4.11.1890 in Prerau, President. — The next item is the joint debate on the following motions for resolutions: The following assessment can be made: Zejda, according to his profession as a suitcase manufacturer, has been more active in the economic field than in official politics. However, he is likely to have been ideologically on the line of Benesch's policy, since it is clear from him that he was a member of the Rotary Club in Prerau until 15.3.1939. Furthermore, it has become known that in the September days 1938 in Pre-rau he was the leader of protest movements against the German Reich in a p t Sa Deutschtum is the fact that he has relatives in Vienna, of which he is reluctant to speak because of their German ethnicity and against German-friendly attitudes. Z. Since May 18, 1939, he has been a member of the Central Committee of the NG to this day. At that time, he forced all the workers and employees of his company to join NG under the threat of dismissal. Because of these burdens, Z. was proposed to be in protective custody at the beginning of the war. However, no arrest was carried out. ©1-35/4i b.w.