STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1679, sig. 109-4/1434 Page 12 · 12 of 41
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1679, sig. 109-4/1434
English Translation
4 to the authority of the Lord Reich Protector. I did not do anything about it, because I believed with confidence and took it for granted that I would be listened to every claim that was detrimental to me, according to the old German foundation "A man's speech is not a man Redey man must be sianören alle bede." I note that this is now the first opportunity, where I am given the possibility of opposing, stating the source. I have also assumed that the authority of the Lord's Imperial Protector would not be informed unilaterally and exclusively by the Rector of the University, but that they would also involve other guarantors. Not only have I not inhibited anything, but I have promoted everything which has contemplatively been moaned to serve at universities, and I have also promoted things that the Rector of the University has not promoted. The majority of all professors, surveyed, will confirm the facts I have indicated. I would ask you to listen at least once to the Rector of the Technical University, who is as well informed about all the circumstances from a daily perspective as the Rector at the University, and I would also ask you, before I leave Prague, to give me the opportunity to make a detailed oral statement. 4.) As for the conclusion of Hamperl's letter, the threat with his departure, this is an empty and tasteless atheroid. Potf.H. does not think about going away. It was only in this summer that he assured me how fatally unhappy he felt in Berlin and how completely happy he was here in Prague. When a question of a short one will still be ready, Hamperl will be an impeccable institute with unlimited work possibilities in every respect. It is also not for Prof. H. to go away, but for the Minister of Education to call him away. However, the Minister for Education will not do this, at least not on the grounds given by H., because in erlin the relations between the institutes are also known, but as far as the departure of university teachers in general is concerned, I must here -