STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2201, sig. 109-11-2

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S 2/10. ANDREAS WAGNER PRAG II., CLIMENTSKÁ 14 VORMALS GEORG GRUNSEICH GEO GRUNZE 1874 Mr TELEGR.: ANDWAG TELEPHONE: 650-30 K. H.Frank, telephone 609-30. State Secretary, 2x/2 GW/Ts.- Czerninpalais, Prague. Mr. Secretary of State Frank, I would like to inform you of an unfortunate incident which has taken place today as a People's German and, at the same time, in my capacity as head of the Section for Food and Drinks of the N.S.D.A.P. by the Czech adviser to the Department of Commerce N e t o u s e k. For my father, the owner of the company A. Wagner, Grossimporthaus, Südfrichte - Obst - Gemüse, Josefsgasse 15-l7, Brno, which is the largest company of its industry in Moravia, I intervened because of various requests for Italian carob carobs/and all in Italian chestnuts, which this company constantly introduced in the previous years. As soon as I noticed that I was calling for a national German company, the behaviour of the above-mentioned gentleman became an ever visible rude one, although I was perfectly correct and even used the Czech language, I was simply rejected with coarse and certainly not beautiful words that the contingent was exhausted. I pointed out in a polite tone that, as soon as an import is proved, there is, of course, the same right for all, and that my father is also entitled to an accounting quota allocation. In sharp words, I was told in a nutshell that the quota had already been exhausted and that it could not be demanded that the lords be given a very oath, in velchem they were asked for early submission of the permits. Anyone who just came here would receive the quota until it was exhausted. I saw that I could not assert my right in this way; then I introduced myself to the above-mentioned gentleman as the head of the section. Mr Netoušek yelled at me in the truest sense of the word and said that he had nothing to talk to me as soon as I did not give him the decree that I am standing over I. Then Mr Netowšek got up and went to his colleague. I once again asked him to consider that these goods would be effectively touched and that such an internship would not be possible after the quota had been exhausted by individuals who might have been informed in some way in time. In an even more gross way, the door was turned down for the second time. I ask for your intervention in this regard, so that such an intervention by this Czech speaker, whom we are still at the mercy of F businessmen, can repeat itself more. F= deutiche Heil Hit ronbrayhraap e r GEORG WAGNER.