THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 762, sig. 109-4/513

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Security Service RF Prague, 8.12.1939 / SD section Prague B 2 PA 466 9/ An den Stererttrer beim Reichsprotektor in Böhmen und Mähren, 4-Groupenführer K.H. Fr a n k, Prag Czerninpalais. Betr.: R a s c h h o f e r , Hermann, Prof. Dr., born 26.7. 1905 in Ried, kath., led., resident Prague. R a s c h h o f e r was the head of the German Burse in Tübingen from May 1930 to October 1931. During this time he clearly preferred the Catholic circles of the ethnic German students who were under his supervision from the south-east. In his capacity as head of Burse he demonstrably prevented the National Socialist forces among the popular German students of Tübingen. At that time he also made the statement, he was ashamed to have been born with Adolf Hitler to a place (Raschhofer was responsible for Braunau a. Inn hei- mat). As the home manager of the German Burse he forbade the holding of the "Völkische Eeobachter" on the grounds that it was a "hetzblatt of the worst kind". Through all this, Raschhofer finally became unbearable for student care and left Tübingen. Raschhofer subsequently worked for several years at the Institut fün Grenz- und Auslandsstudium in Berlin. Through a large-scale work on fascism, Rashhofer gained a scientific name in the following period. In 1933, R. In his publication "Großdeutsch oder Kleinösterreich?", published by Volk- und Reich-Verlag, the fiction of the small Austrian ideology, he represented for the first time National Socialist views. a CA X