English Translation

Dundrdhlag 27 Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Wostry (Prague), dzt. Eichwald b/ Teplitz-Schönau, Sanatorium Theresienbad An den Herrn SS-Obergruppenführer Staatsminister K.H. Fr a n k in P R A G IV. Czerninpalais. Would you please allow me to add the booth of the Prague to the award of the Bichendorff Prize and ask for your new support in this matter. Prof. Erich Gierach (in Munich) and Walter Hensel (dzt. in Teplitz- Schönau) have been the winners for years; the third was Prof. Emil Lehmann (Dresden). I have reported to you at the time on all three of the proposed personalities and did not forward the proposal from the Board of Trustees to the Executive Board of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Foundation any sooner than I had the conviction that you had no doubts about it. I also have Mr. Rector Prof. Buntru informed of the situation and the steps taken in it and did nothing without his consent. So I also repeatedly negotiated with him about the date of the solemn ceremony and so (in agreement with Mr. Frof. Metz) finally the ll December l.J. In the hope of a firm intention (which, unfortunately, could not yet be realized by the necessity of my sat- national stay), I would like to ask for your approval for this date and for the celebration itself the honor of your participation orally. Nothing made me believe that there was still a lack of agreement from another decisive point.