English Translation

139 Security Service RF4 Prague, 24.2.1940. SD section Prague Office of S'aa Secretary B 2 beun Reo poektor PA 1191 in Bohemia and Moravia. Eing. 26.FEB.1940 Tgb. Nr.: 1381 To the Secretary of State 8y at the Reichsprotector in Böhmen and Moravia, 4-group leader K.H. Fr a n k, Prag Czerninpalais. Betr.: Freiherr von der L e y e n, Joachim, Oberlandrat von Deutsch-Brod, geb. 28.9.1897 in Büderich/Rhein ev., verh., 3 children. Vorg.:_Last here B 2 of 20.2.1940. Oberlandrat von der L e y e n tries lately in a conspicuous form to become in the German population of its district somehow popular. Furthermore, on 10 February 1940, he was in Iglau with the head of the circle S i e g 1 and, in the course of a discussion, asked him whether the head had an interest in the fact that he was leaving Deutsch- Brod as Oberlandrat. Kreisleiter Siegl skilfully bypassed the answer to this question, rather pointing to the exclusive traffic of the Oberlandrat with the German and Czech nobility, and criticized his efforts against the commitment for the half-Jewish children of Dr. S c h m i d t in Květinov. In conclusion, Oberlandrat von der Leyen explained to Kreisleiter Siegl that he (from the left) would be working against him by various bodies. It would be possible that the Kreislaiter would make a request about him b.w.