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

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Be5 01 Excerpt from Večerní České Slovo v.23.1.1945. The new head of government Richard Bienert is a real, undistorted child of the Vltava, a Prague to the innermost mark. In his youth he was an excellent swimmer.He won four swimming competitions and once a racer and from that time still has sports badges at home. He is a man of stately shape with broad shoulders, who stands over his surroundings around a benign head, even though he already goes a little bent and the formerly dark hair is lighted and grayed.Richard Beinert knows well what poverty and a hard life is and how to reckon with every grief.His father was adjunct to the Prague magistrate and had to be a secretary of the St.Josefsvereines for the care for dismissed convicts are looking for a side job.Richard was the oldest of seven children.In addition, there was a big nutter and it was difficult to take care of lo persons.So it was a problem to send Richard to study and if he hadn't already been a primary student by tutoring with other classmates, his studies would have been It has not been possible at all. At that time, the young student Beinert really gave his mother to the last cruiser.For himself, he needed nothing because he was fed at home and his suits were sewn around by those of his uncle, an official from Bosnia-Herzegovina.Richard Bienert has maintained this simplicity and unsolicitedness to this day.With pride, he explains that he did not know Prague's nightlife at all and that he had never been in a bar in his whole life.He always went to sleep soon and got up soon.In the office, he understands that even at seven o'clock in the morning, he is not always the greatest joy of his subordinates. TDuad Iu's cinema doesn't go at all, he rarely goes to the theatre, while Tuyud loves music and concerts.His only passion was "Vlasta" cigarettes, but the war also called him a renunciation here. His high sense of family must be emphasized.He himself says that in his life only two serious blows really hit him; his father's death and his wife's. He has a son who is a civil servant and a daughter married to a doctor in Busweis.In Budweis are also his grandchildren and therefore he can be seen so often in the passenger train Prague-Bubweis .He drives Hl: second class and does not allow him to reserve an extra cupee wiyd.In Prague he likes to take the tram. W MeuerA