English Translation

-3- etd":nediefd Through her work, the "German Society" had already gained recognition as an "Academy" in the scientific world in the old Austrian era. 1e Just before the break-up of the old Austria in 1918, the Vienna government was also ready for formal recognition of the Prague German Academy; it was no longer possible to implement it. For me national reasons, the Czech State then refused to recognise t society as an academy for twenty years; only Czech academies were allowed to exist in the Czech state. Only shortly before the end of the Czech state, they were prepared to acknowledge the "German Academy" doiax; the violent clashes over the statute that the Czech government wanted to use to make the national-German organization a government organization came in spring 1938 and then the end to the Beneš Republic. The recognition of the "German Society of Sciences and Arts" as the "Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Prag" (German Academy of Sciences in Prague) IM by the Great German Empire is therefore our organization's pride in its work for half a century in the shoal struggle for the preservation of the German culture of our space. .onie det The Prague Academy will continue this old work line of "German society" which has been proven in national struggle. Besides the general task of all medoetue0 academies: the care of the sciences as a whole, SON0SBTECUOSW OE edeyeusTel axoews gnutledteed bnu gnunnmsetua egleannelg.elb aedoudratiöw 8c101