English Translation

278 -8 - Negotiation with Hodza before the proposal was discussed. The Baroness One actually made the offer, as Steiner had already described to me. Ieh was strongly opposed by the following considerations: In Annahne of this offer the last valuable forest stocks of the Coburg property were cut out and transferred without significant equivalent value into the hands of the exploitation consortium Hodza and comrades. The Coburgers would have remained a remaining possession of young wood and hardwood stocks, on which then unexplained the levy was burdened, over whose definite height no man was sure. On condition that the offer of the Minister Hodza was a huge quantity of wood in one of the immense value, which I expect to be more than 320 million Kc., I explain. As a precise connoisseur of Coburg-Kohary, a previous expert and statistician, I am referring to the Kat, Joch l60 qm with a rcinon Stoclwvert vón 50.- Kc. per ebm. The commercial value of this wood use may be three times the value, so that it is practically a billion business in turnover. If I am to be held to, I declare: The entire removal of the coburgi see Gütar was in fact an open robbery. Then a whole number of Jewish candidates from Vienna made an effort to obtain the status of this Hodza offer. I have done so, and have been appalled at this as a coercive administrator and replaced by Razim as an official and coerct administrator. To the question of whether Razim had known about the dicsem dunklon business of Minister Hodza, I say: Certainly. A dor-like business would not be carried out without Razimm's participation. I spoke to him about the Orste Hodza-Weidengeschüft myself. I would also like to trust 90% of my memory that I also talked to him on the Viennese offer.