STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 594, sig. 109-4/341 Page 100 · 100 of 197
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 594, sig. 109-4/341
English Translation
- 3 - 88 political right groups and especially the Czech Association for the Cooperation with the Germans of the General Blaha to compete. Apparently Urban has been entrusted by the head of the ČNS with an increased operation of this work. Urban has had a remarkable agility for about 3 weeks to make itself heard in all relevant German bodies for its project. He legitimises himself in these preliminary talks as chairman and speaker of the group for the German-Czech relations of the Committee of the ČNS-Volksgemeinschaft and as deputy chairman of the Czech Association for Cooperation with the Germans. He begins his discussions in all cases with his presentation as captain of the Keserve of the k.u.k. army. In doing so, he refers to his war awards, which he always proudly wears on his civilian suit on such occasions. Urban wants to organise a tea reception in a serious context as the start of his German-Czech communication work, so that the participation of the most authoritative German personalities and of the Czech political life will give his work an official legitimacy. Urban now uses the a claimed positive result to call a previously had audience and to work in this way from place to place. In Prague he began this "run-through" of the measured positions with a start-up visit to the government council 1-Sturmbannführer G i e s. Shortly afterwards he appeared in the ČTK with J-Obersturmführer Wolfram von Wolmar, in which he already emphasized the positive result of his debate with Dr. Gies, who had shown the greatest interest in his plan. In order to have a beveis of his political viability in the hands of the German authorities, he went a few days later to the government commissioner Dr. E n g e l m ann