English Translation

Hptm.Grimm Karl O.U., 1 July 1941 53 Service Feldpost-No. 29549 To the Reichsminister des Inneren Berlin . Reference: Third decree on legal relations of former Czech-Slovak public servants in the Sudeten German territories of 30.9.1940, Reichsgesetzblatt Part I./1323. Betr.: Pension claims within the meaning of the above decree. From 1909/10 - 1912/13 I worked as a teacher in Haid and Neulosimtal, district of Tachau and was employed 19i4 as a definitive teacher at the school in Purschau. When the world war broke out, I served 48 months at the front of the K.K. Schützen-regiment No. 6 Eger and was wounded once. I returned to the field at Christmas 1918 as Lieutenant of the Res.. Because of the unexplained conditions in the Sudeten-German territory, I was on leave from school and first worked as secretary of the federation of the n. a. Gagists in the sudetenGerman territory. After three times confiscation of this law firm by the Czechs (Zeuge Kaufmann Ignatz Kopp, Markt-Radwitz) I went to Vienna and worked with the Suteten-deutsche Landesregierung (Dr. Knight of Lodgmann, Major Kriegelstein, Intendant Gartenzaun) as courier. (Certifications can be submitted.) According to the peace treaty of St. Germain Fall 1919 I did not return home, but attended the course for horticultural technicians at the higher gardening institute in Köstritz until autumn 1920, in order to then work as Eleve, Cehilfe and Obergärtner in enterprises; now employed as garden inspector at the company Mauxion, Saalfeld/Saale. In the autumn of 1922, I was still on leave as a teacher of the Czechoslovak State and was asked at that time by the Czech Republic to make further leave dependent on a transfer of the service idea for the Czecho-Slovak Republic /