English Translation

Prague, 5 February 194o 108 Betr.: Colonel a.D. von K o t i n s k y - K a u n i t z, Prague II, Pštrosgasse 25/II. The title of the aristocracy is wrong and its name is Ulrich Kotinsky. He comes from Pardubitz, where he was born in l877 as the son of a railway official. He confessed his bourgeois departure in a trial in which he was involved in 1937 in Prague for depressing affairs and embezzlement, even to Kotinsky lived before the outbreak of war l9l4 in Petersburg as one of the many Czech sport teachers present there. At the beginning of the war, he joined the "Česká družina", which was the name of the first Czech volunteer force in Russia, from which the Czech legions developed. Shortly thereafter, he was transferred to the staff of the Russian army at Přemysl. Nothing is known about his further military service in the war. In the year 1892 Kotinsky appeared in Prague in the university form of a colonel of the Circassian Cossacks. He referred to 'his friends in the; St. Petersburg high aristocracy and as his father gave the prince Zdenek K i n s k y and as its mother the Baroness Anna K a u n i t z. In the post-war period, Kotinsky led the life of an impostor until he was arrested in the year 1 927 for the crimes that have now been committed and was sentenced to 2 1/2 years by the District Criminal Court in Prague on 1 5.ll.37. Kotinsky-Kaunitz produced extensive essays by the Czech newspapers. Two articles from the newspapers "A-Zet" and "Česke slovo" are based on this report.