STATE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1795, sig. 109-5/23

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143 The Ministerial Director B o j u n g a was appointed by the Ministry of Education as a commissioner for higher education matters at Army Group III after the German troops invaded the Protectorate. Due to his past, as well as due to his behaviour and his activity in the Protectorate, serious concerns are raised against the person of Bojunga: 1) Bojunba is a Rotarian. Until 1933 he belonged to the Rotary Club in Hanover as a leading member. 2) In his behaviour and in his actions as a commissioner for higher education matters in the Protectorate, Bojunga proved himself politically instinctless. Thus, he took an attitude in the well-known question of insignia, which called for the strongest alienation in teaching and student circles. The insignia had been illegally taken away from the German universities by the Czechs in l934 at that time. It was a question of honour for the German higher education institutions that these insignios should be returned immediately after the establishment of the protectorate. Ministerial Director Bojunga, on the other hand, took up negotiations with the Czech authorities on this issue, as in a number of other events, and agreed to transfer the offices to a museum. Only in the first days of September of this year did the entries be returned in a non-binding form. On the question of teaching staff, Bojunga also showed an extremely unstable attitude towards the Czech authorities.