THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2249, sig. 109-11/50

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9. Kučera defended himself against it and demanded the right of the agricultural moratorium. In this case, too, some of the state offices came to his hands, but it did not help much. In addition, the bank in the ORIoN factory, in which he was not only a shareholder, but also as chairman of the administrative council, seized an annual amount of Kč 250.o00.---amount of the following shares: shares that were acquired at the Anglo-Prago bank..............6oo piece of Moravian bank.... 25 shares at the Bohemian Bank, according to the name of the banker J.Miler .330 shares at Zivnobanka denominated in Fr.Koláb 1000 shares in the name Josef Souček ....... 600 shares on the name Julius Lederer ....... 700 in the whole ......... 3255 shares á 700 Kč, together therefore..............Kč 2.278,500 shares contributed 24 Kč in the previous year, together with therefore 78,120 Kč. However, the Moravian Agricultural Bank went even further.When the General Assembly took place at the company ORioÑ on 20 June 1936, great surprise was prepared for Kučera éine. The Bank has won 2.loo shares, namely shares of Mrs. M.Koudela, Paul Bacher and Heidler, which enabled the Oposition to gain a surplus of 2325 votes in favour of Dr.Stránský, where only a minority of l674 votes were cast for Kučera. In this way, Kučer was forced to renounce the role of chairman of this company, which function he had already spent 20 years and for which he was paid 250.oo0.--Kč annually.xaeh Diesem losses soon followed another loss.The company Orion regarding it daily 7oo liters of milk and the delivery has cancelled it. On April 28, 1937, Kučera's houses in Prague were auctioned in the amount of Kč 754.O00.--. The public did not want to believe that Kucera would be in financial difficulties. It was believed that he had kept his money abroad, but that he could not get the same over the border in time due to R Valuta regulations.Lanche people again said that it was a financial speculation, which others again claimed that he was financially ruined,because he married his daughter Marie to his official Fr.Hřebiček. 0858 In addition, there is another blow and the execution-defence of the large estate Dlouhá Lhora, which on 8th of January l938 bought the couple Eifler. The court estimate was at 12,000,000.-- Kč. At that time he filed a lawsuit for insult of honor and indeed a pragmatist teacher Šour from Kozoyed. In the presence of Sácha District Chief of Kralovirz, the district authority in Kraloviwitz, he is supposed to use a statement against Kučera, through which he felt insulted.In Kralowirz Šour was committed to a conditional sentence, but he has filed a return against this judgment to the district court in Pilsen,where the judgment of I. In this court, Kučera lost his trial and convinced himself that his power was no longer firm. He once again convinced himself of this when he wanted to enforce the revelation of Švehla's monument in the agricultural circles. The Argrar-Organisation from the Kralowitz district was opposed,so that this revelation no longer came. Finally, the following agreement was reached on the occasion of the closing of the Minister Machnik and the deputy Kočandrle at the May Festival: Kučera will be handed over the monument, as well as the property on which it was accommodated, to the agricultural party and allowed to be released.