English Translation

138 Security Service RF4 Prague, 24.2.1940. SD section Prague B 2 Office of State Secretary PA 3785 bein Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia. Eing.: 26.FEB.1940 1370 Tgb. Nr.... To the State Secretary at the Reichsguardor in Böhmen and Moravia, 1-group leader K.H. Fr a n k, Prag Czerninpalais. Betr.: O b e r n d o r f e r, Franz, geb. 1892 in Teschen Managing Director of the Cultural Association of Germans in Prague, Vorg.: Dortiger Note of 3.1.1940, here B 2 of 16.1.1940. Finally, Franz O b e r n d o r - for the following information: O. was appointed to Vienna on the basis of his experiences and achievements in the Völkische Grenzlandarbeit in 1909 in the school administration service. Here, by establishing private schools and kindergartens, and not least by the planned expansion and use of these institutions, he has saved some of the linguistic border communities threatened by national and ethnic violence from denationalisation. On the basis of his knowledge of the country and the people and by mastering the purely legal provisions in the school question, Oberndorfer was assigned to the German Cultural Association for the organization of private schools and kindergartens. He proved to be a particularly reliable and goal-conscious employee. In 1920 he headed the school administration of the German Cultural Association according to schedule. In 1924 he was given the full management of the business of the Deutschen Kulturverband b.w.