GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 679, sig. 110-4/528

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Bas Der Gauleiter und Reichsstatthalter Reichenberg, the 4th April 1944 in the Sudetengau Reichstatthalterei An den Deutschen Staatsminister für Böhmen und Mähren S OT SS-Obergruppenführer K.H. Frank Prag IV Czernin-Palais. C0080 OV Lieber K a r l 06 1 hh WEL YO P0 BO 196 Tebnad I beg you to examine the following matter rsd - to liegen: 9b The fortune of the Czech married couple Josef . Ružička and Anna, née Mocker in Prague, were drafted by the State Police Department in Prague with the order of 4.1.1942 for the benefit of the Empire. This property also includes the Hains- pach (district of Schluckenau) with its castle and its art-historically valuable institution. In Prague III, Drazitz 7th place, the property management office is responsible for the utilization of the property, to which the property of Ružička's spouses, including Hainspach's rule, is to be transferred within its jurisdiction. .egitdote I have now come to know that the art-historically valuable castle arrangement, which I wanted to secure for the Gau Sudetenland, is no longer present in the castle Hainspach. I implore you, through the secret state police, state police headquarters in Reichenberg, which had confiscated the property of Ružička's spouses in Sudetengau with the aim of confiscation in favour of the empire and then administered in a fiduciary manner and through your wealth office, which is responsible for the utilization of this wealth, $\r0-66/4 T MA