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9 Sicherheitsdienst RF SD-Zentralstelle f.Böhmen a.Mähren. E To the Secretary of State at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia, e.g. 4h-Sturmbannführer G i e s s , Prague. Betr.: B i e n e r't, Landesvizepräsident, Prag. Vorg.: There.Schrb. vom 7.1o.39. 1.) For the arrest of the benert on 1.9.39, it was important that during the World War he was a police director of Prague, who had proven to be effective for the Czech Maffia and, for example, helped Masaryk and Benesch to flee. Bienert was one of the most outstanding members of the Czech maffia. He abused the trust of the main authorities of the Vienna Ministry of the Interior and other Austrian authorities in the most gross way and used it for the purposes of the Maffia. He was promoted to the police president of Prague on 29 January 1918 as a reward after the overthrow in Bohemia. 2.) Bienert is described by several sides as a national-conscious Czech and a wise, energetic and very skilled person, but on the other hand he is confirmed that he has often behaved objectively and correctly in the Czechoslovak Republic against German belan- ers. This is testified, for example, by the former Senator and Landbund representative Stöhr. 3.) Bienert told private individuals that they had recently approached him to win him for the new Maffia. However, he had refused to do so. According to the material available here, it is not possible to decide whether this rejection of Beenert was meant honestly, but there is the