English Translation

3. 18 with the business card : 'Emil Kučera,factory and private secretary of the k.u.k. ex-minister Karl Prášek ' into the Viennese circles and drew from these new acquaintances benefits not only for himself, but also for his boss. Especially during the World War everything was designed according to his wishes.In his Margarin factory everything was produced, only Margariv not. Large boxes and suitcases were transported to Vienna every week. Kučera made new announcements. He was known with a number of influential personalities, both in the military and in government circles. To these people he provided the food, of course only against high reward, or on counter-service and counter-servies it was possible for him to almost open a law firm for withdrawal from military service in world wars. After Březnice, a whole series of rich agricultural sons flocked to Kučera, giving him, of course, everything possible to be relieved of military service. They told of huge rewards that had to be paid for these services. Kučera was in Vienna in the Grandhotel, Ringstrasse, a well-known personality. There was, so to speak, his camp, where the suitcases were lifted by his acquaintances against confirmation. Especially in the years l917/l9l8 he developed a great activity in this respect, especially when he became friends in Vienna with the head of the former Ministry of Food Löwenfeld Russ. He started to buy large quantities of sugar for some companies, especially the company Marchner, Prag and the company Wantoch, Nymburk. Outside the usual commission he was allowed to buy a few hundred shares of this company. Later he was also elected a member of the board of directors. He was later elected Chairman of the Board of Directors at Wantoch. He was also able to enforce that the latter company was allowed to set up a Marmelandenfabrik xixh and that it was always allocated a sufficient quantity of sugar. In addition to these transactions, which had brought him a lot of money, he was still dealing with the sugar on his own account, so that the Prague usury office had to deal with this his activity.This office ensured that many misdeclared shipments were delivered to the Březnice station for Kučera in l9l7. These deliveries were declared as liqueurs, or antiques by Wan-toch, but they contained sugar with which Kučera was playing. He delivered it and sold it only to the people who could pay it enough. He did not sell it to the poor people. He thought he had done a barmhercig act when he sold 2 kg of sugar to a certain Tetour, whose wife was heavy-duty and needed sugar.For this sugar, Tetour had to sell him 35 pieces of cigars. As a result of his empire and many acquaintances, his imagination increased, which caused him in the year l9l8 a new assignment for insults of honour.He was sentenced to a fine of 80 K under number U 543 § 49l of the Criminal Law,in case of incapacity to 2 days in prison. However, this meant not much for Ku era. As a result of great protection, which he had everywhere, he soon became rich. In the month of March l9i8 he became a member of the trade association INTERNATIONALE, with the contribution of l6O.O0O K, which amount he took in cash. But there was nothing against what was expected of him in the ČsR, when Karl Prášek was appointed Minister of Agriculture. He could not forget in his office on Kučera. He called him the Likvi dations Council of the Ministry of Agriculture with extensive legal powers, but mainly with high salaries. But that was not all. Prášek called Kučera the compulsory administrator on two large and important state assets, namely Konopiště and Smečno. Kučera, however, did not become a part of this service, after which he did not work in the interests of the state, but these functions served him only as a new source of income and entertainment. He organised frequent meetings on ild, xke fasa, ducks, chickens and so on and invited many guests, so that in a short time there was no game in the woods. After he took more care of conversations* than of the economy, complaints were soon made to him.For example, it was established that he had 400 vehicles destroyed Klee. On the publishers of the public, a revision was sent to Konopiště on 27th and 28th November19, after which the economy of this great good ended in a single year with a deficit.