English Translation

110-4/562 L8 Narodní Politika of 28 January 1945. F.Sadecký: Richard Bienert. Z I think I can say that the appointment of a new head of government in our people rarely aroused so much attention as on January 9th, the year before.Why, the name Richard Bienert is not unknown to us.I believe that there is no one who would not know him in connection with the office of chief of police in Prague.It was a popular name.The sources of this popu- larity spring in the way he held the office entrusted to him. He was, of course, not so distinguished as a criminologist, rather * as a wise and witty guardian of peace, of the city entrusted to him. The Prague police president advanced over the presidency of the country Bohemia to the seat of the Minister of the Interior and the office of the chairman of the government.His talent, reinforced by his ad- ministrative and administrative experiences, gvagpastinated him for these functions.But the basic elements of this talent were decidedly higher than the "police - police". GehrungsauukBier/Beenert still has a characteristic feature: Although of political (Eruptlon to an extraordinary extent, he showed no desire to devote himself to politics.In Prague's initiated circles, it was also not unknown that Bienert did not become interior minister in the period of the republic alone because he did not have a mandate of deputies and - no legitimacy of a political party. In this way, the uncontested capacity for the seat of the "tnnenmini- ster" in this way to the detriment of the 'official body', which would have put him in this position at least in a so-called "office of civil servants". This was not the case in the United Kingdom. The explanation of the sad fact that only the sixty-year-old beeer becomes Minister of the Interior must, of course, be sought in a different direction.In his character.He is certainly sociable.The circle of his pecans and friends of daily life, however, was constantly in accordance with normal,bourgeois radius, which was in no proportion MOT7 to his popularity - apart from the number of people with whom he became known in the performance of his duties - and among them were the politicians in the minority.A priest, an academic painter, a university professor, a doctor, a chemist, an engineer, an architect, an official, a hournalist: these were about