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30 June 1944. Prag-Bubentsch, security service of the Reichsführer-4f Sachsenweg telex 774-44 SD-lead section Prague III C 1 - PA.550/41. It is requested to indicate diefes Gelchäftszeiaen . the counterfand in further proceedings To the German Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia 4ObergruppenführER K.H. Fr a n k iniste . O Prag. -5. JULI 1944 SOE 0 obet et6 coGaes TSU D Betr.: Prof. Dr. Kurt M a y . duoeoltdt S0 TOSRAT mONSEE o In the summer semester 1943 Prof. Dr. Kurt Ma y was entrusted with the representation of the chair "German Literary History" because the bishierige chair holder Prof.Dr. Erich T r u n z , Director of the Semi-nar for German Philology, went to the Wehrmacht. M ay belongs to the teaching body of the University of Göttingen. T r u n z the representation by M a y lapses. T r n z tried now to work for Prof. Dr. M ay to stay in Prague and has called on the curator of the German Scientific High School, Dr. E h r l i c h e r , to do so. E r l e r Ministerial Councillor Dr. H e c k e l from the Ministry of State has asked for the support of the proposal of Prof. D r u r z. It is likely that the Minister of State will receive special funds so that he can pay M a y the difference between his Göttingenian teaching salary and the remunerations from the representation of the Prague Ordinariate. There is no doubt that Prague needs a second new Germanist. However, it is also without doubt that Prof. Dr. If M a y were to be given the opportunity to stay in Prague, this would support the state of mediocrity, which already prevails in the Phi-Losophical Faculty of Prague, and the tendencies of the Reich Ministry of Education not to provide Prague sufficiently. probably never convey a second New Germanist chair, because one can point out that a 2nd New German is present, which Prague essentially pays. ./. \O-91/44 141