English Translation

52 -2- pu -ONOR- The defendant is SudetenGerman. Lx was born on >.c.lag4 in Jauernig, East Sudan, as the son of ethnic German parents. He himself was first an Austrian national, obtained lel8 with the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic the Czecho-Slovak nationality and acquired by naturalisation at the beginning of August l937 the German Reich nationality and the liking citizenship. The accused is married childless after a child from his marriage died again. After the defendant had completed his education with the saturum, he worked from lyl4 to lyld as a salesman at the Eisenwerk ritkovitz ironworks in Lährisch-Ostrava and in lien. From l9l6 to l9 l8 he studied the rights at the Vienna University without taking a exam at that time. He did not participate in the leltkrieg. From l9l8 to l9L9, the employee went to Breza in Bosnia, where he worked as a commercial employee at a coal mine, after which he worked until 19.l. at the Georg-Schicht k.i. in Aussig. 'htchkiessende wer he bis 1923 Syndikus des Vereina der Bendfabrikanten in Gross- Schönau. During this time he finished his studies at the University of Leipzig and obtained his doctorate there on 5.).19 3 zua (pktor rer.pol. with a work on the Sudeten German Rraünkohlenbergbau. Subsequently the defendant was until l9i5 Geschiftaführer at the Sschwauer Filzfabriken. From l9a5 to 19:d he represented the German Haarfilzsyndikat in Czechoslovakia. This position was not viable with the sharpening conditions in international trade; the defendant went to Berlin at the beginning of 1928, because he was disloving as a political victor of the Sudetenteutsohtum in the Czechoslovak Republic. There he was until l93l with the Siemons & Halske A.G. From 193l to the end of 193; the defendant self-employed in Berlin operated a commercial information office, Dana was chief executive officer of a Togeszeitung until nde l9s4 and entered the