NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 682, sig. 110-4/532 Page 4 · 4 of 81
THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 682, sig. 110-4/532
English Translation
La - 2 - The whole plan has undoubtedly been spoken to the current dean of the Phi-Losophical Faculty, Prof. Dr. Edm. Sc h n e w e w i s s , Director of the Institute for the Clients of Eastern and Southeast Europe. S c h n an e w s s is the typical expression of the scientific and practical mediocrity to be found in the Faculty of Philosophy. Through his good connections with the Ministerial Officer H o f - m a n n from the Reich Ministry of Education, he has so far been able to carry out his "extra tours", which spoil every determined nat.soz. university policy line. Therefore, in the activist circles of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, it is increasingly demanded that Prof. As an example of the egoistic convenience and the below-average aspects according to which S c h n e w e s works as dean, the case of Prof. Dr. P r e i B i g , Director of the Romanisches Seminar, has to be mentioned. P e i g shared with the Deputy Head of the Reinhard Heydrich Foundation, Prof.Dr. B e y e r , writing that he T is opposed to the occupation of the Slavic chair after the departure of Prof. Dr. G e s e ma n n (Slavic languages and literature). He (Preizig) is an extra ordinarius and wishes to become an ordinary. He can only do so if the teaching pulpit of Gesemann is occupied only with a lecturer or an extra professor. The fact that such a thing is possible is because S c h n e w e s is both incapable and unwilling to lead the faculty on a factual basis. The actual dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Prague, thus is expressed in activist faculty circles and professors of the faculty, H o f m a n n , Berlin ("a remote-controlled faculty according to principles of the Berlin ministerial bureaucracy"). This "official" higher education policy takes these younger forces, it is further argued, any enthusiasm for work, only creates anger and gives no impetus. If 3 - 4 people in Prague were to develop their own impulses outside the Protectorate or not at all, "one would have in the higher education sector a fair of the vanity. ./•