GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 711, sig. 110-4562

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3x 410-4/562 -2 - 24a 00758 Archiwt Slaviček and Dr. Klima after the reorganization of the state police under the police president Kunz retired@! B. came from the Sokolvereinigung Prag-Wyschehrad, one of the Socol associations, who practiced the tradition of Tyrsh and Fügner most zealously and worked B. since his age. B. By no means fulfilled the expectations of the state police, but acted like a political "sphinx", as Sadecky rightly notes for his further development, which is why he mostly translated or edited messages received in Czech. I presume his relations with Dr. Šamal and the "Maffia" as well-known. They clearly proved that he answered the question of Üsterreich (i.e. Germanism) or Czechism in favour of the latter also for the price of the break of loyalty. He then revealed his relations with Dr.Šanal with alleged negotiations for the purchase of a house. Although the motivations of his break of fidelity seem ideal, the statements that happened to slip away revealed that B. Thus B. asked me in the second half of l9l8 who could be elected as police president in the event of a overthrow and was dismayed when I told him that only he could be considered as such; for at that time "the Maffia" already assured him of this post. Occasionally from another conversation he told me that he was willing to sacrifice everything for his family, also to "murder", in a context that suggested that he thought of the material well-being and upbringing of his family or his children. From this it should be concluded that B, in the upheavals (about the war and financial situation he was from foreign newspapers, which were available to him at the state police and which he also passed on to the "Maffia", well-oriented) did not want to forge anything but on the contrary his "happiness". Obviously this was also a cause of the sphinx nature of Bienert. The main link between this characterisation of Bienert and his service at the Prague Police Directorate was that the police officers formed a closed status in themselves, which was completely separate from the status of the 'other' administrative officers, so that the officers of the Police Directorate from among the other administrative officials would not be supplemented.