STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1459, sig. 109-4/1213 Page 17 · 17 of 156
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1459, sig. 109-4/1213
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9V - 3 - is still an agreement on the purchase price of the let-over values under formation of a purchase price in Bausch and Bogen, I declare: Such a transfer I also found abundantly generous. However, President Vozenilck expressly made it my duty to take over all the assets of the Coburgers, so that the whole matter of Coburg-Kohary was finally completely settled. On condition that it is completely incomprehensible that I would not be able to take such a request without a legal basis - for I admit that I did not have a hand over to the two princes on the transfer of the movable property according to the land conditions at all -, I declare: I thought that the President Vozonilek had previously agreed with the representatives of the Princes on the overall assumption of the possession of the princes. In any case, my person no longer needed to be pressured to release him, but I remember that I told the gentlemen that if they did not hand over all the assets to the Coburg-Kohary, I would have to proceed to expropriation. On condition that at most an expropriations of the land could have followed, I declare: That is right. On request and on the question whether I have not told the princes, for example, in these preliminaries, that the wealth levy can be quite high, that one cannot show any accommodation in it, if one closes to the surrender of the entire property, I reply: That is possible, I cannot remember. On condition that, in the contract of 24 March 1928, the Prince Philipp-Josias of Coburg and the Prince Cyrill of Bulgaria appear as the seller of the entire Coburg estate and not on either of the two princes and the wife Her- ziehenin in undivided hereditary community or the Prince Philip-Jozias alone, but only for the Fideikommiss property and the prince Philipp-Josias, Prince Cyril and the woman Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein for the Allod property, I declare:, I