English Translation

29 Draft letter from Secretary of State K.l. F r a n k to Frofessor Dr. O t o. The draft was formulated on the basis of the discussion with Minister Director Professor M e ntz e 1. To Professor Dr. E.O t ibe t L Nalho . Wniatitib in P r a g XII CEO Beneschauer-Str.23 Dear Professor ! Dazch Nagnifizenz B u n t r u was informed that you withdrew your request for retirement in a letter to Mr Reichsminister R u s t, which was sent to Berlin bypassing the route of service. Magnificenz Buntru told me about his various meetings with them. After Dr. Mr. Rust, Minister of the Reich, as well as I, have always represented the stand that you, at the time, deserve full recognition as Rector of the German Karls University. With regard to the above, SS-Obergruppenführer H e y d r i c h at that time also expressed the wish that this recognition be given to you once again during your retirement and at the same time ensure that your wish for an honorary professorship for phonetics or general language teaching and language ps-chology is fulfilled. At the request of SS-Obergruppenführer heydrich, this matter has been discussed in the Ministry. On my instructions, Dr. Beyer has now again held a meeting with ministerial director rofessor Menzel, stating that the responsible head of the office intends to work for the granting of an honorary professorship to the Minister. He does not believe, however, that the grant of the honorary professorship for Berlin will be possible, as the faculty lacks any initiative, either the University of Marburg (or another university to be proposed) or the sound research institute in Braunschweig. Reichsminister Rust is abroad at the moment, so that Ministerial Director Menzel can speak to him only in a few weeks. 2.) It will give you during the observation of school policy development in $0.144/42