English Translation

The Reichsstatthalter im Judetengau Reichenberg, 19 July 1941. (Gauselfeverwaltung) Rederngasse fr (Liebieg-Palais) Dr. Kurt Oberdorffer. Düco of the State Secretary - at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia. Eing.: 22. JULY 1941 AMW teal Mr. Tgb. Nr. TR State Secretary 9CATEHBBETAS - SS Group Leader Karl Hermann Frank Prague IV., T80a 9 Czerninpalais. CB . A o colaicroitan NO10BB8IO ta Dear Secretary of State, I would like to address you directly if there were any difficulties in the common field of cultural policy, I will come back earlier than I expected. I allow myself to focus your attention on a matter which is beginning to grow in tangible form over the last few weeks and which unexpectedly encounters difficulties. In recognition of the achievements of Professor Erich Gierach in the field of folk research, the Gauleiter has made a proposal to the President of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Foundation, Professor Friedrich Metz in Freiburg, to take the 60th birthday of Professor GierACH in November 1994 as an opportunity to award him the Eichendorff Prize in 1994 as well as other awards of the Foundation in recent years for special achievements in the area of folk studies in the border region. (In this context, I mention the award of Dr. Lattermann in Poznan with the Coppernicus Prize 194l.) Professor Metz welcomed the Gauleiter's suggestion and wish with pleasure and agreed to the awarding of the present-day Eichendorff Prize to Erich Gierach and pledged to make a full commitment to this solution, including the full approval of other personalities SS.10-34/41 ./.