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32 2014/04 the memory and history of the study and articles to Hlušice.8 But at that time both assets were well-cut through the first Czech- Koslovak land reform.9 The Dymok estate lost two thirds of its size and had in 1933 2 123 ha. The large estate of Velká Hlu šíšice was reduced slightly by 72 ha to the final 986 ha.10 Rudolf Děpold was a knight of the Suverén-her order of Maltese knights. He married the Friederika Countess von Wenckheim (1911 ©1991). Humprecht married the Nazis shortly after the occupation of the rest of the Czech lands on May 3, 1939 in Prague. He married Princess Maria Ida of Lobkowicz (1917 ©2002) from the dolnobeřkovice line of the family. For years, politicians were not involved, which was quite logical given the approach of the First Republic regime to the nobility.11 The latter became an undesirable element in the new state and symbolized everything that its leaders tried to crowd out the Habsburg Empire institutions, social inequality and German domi-nance. The withdrawal of the right to use inherited titles12 and, in particular, the first land reform and its consequences have shocked the thought and economic world of the nobility. Shortening the land base meant in many cases a radical reduction in the financial potential of large estates and families dependent on their profits.The initial shock soon replaced the need to adapt to new conditions. At the end of 30. The historical nobility established in the Czech lands as a whole was therefore in a complicated situation resulting from the changes that occurred after the end of World War I. The time was no longer allowed to balance between national camps. While in border areas, mostly occupied by German et-Nik, the nobles took a stand in the frame of Sudeten Germanism, the nobility from the center of the country claimed the Czech Republic's Czech Republic.13 The Czech nation's loyal noble families confirmed their commitment to the republic threatened by Nazi Germany 8 © Including the brickworks in Janovice near Nový Bydžov and the woodland of the Great Osek. The price of the large estate Hlušice was estimated by the Živnostenská banka at CZK 2.5 million. Ibid. 9 © As a foretaste of the approaching land reform and radical interventions into land ownership entered into force on 9 November 1918 law on the construction of large estates. The trade law of April 1919, the allocation of January 1920 and the replacement of April 1920, was to be redistributed land of large estates or generally all land assets over 150 ha of agricultural land or over 250 ha of land at all. Closer to Horejš, Miloš NOVOTNÝ, Michal: Economic activity of the Šlik family at the end of the 19th and 1st half of the 20th century. In: From the Czech Paradise and Podkrkonoší © Supplementum 13. Noble families and their headquarters in the Czech Paradise. State district archive Semily © Pekařova společnost Český ráj in Turnov, Semily 2009, p. 381 ©382. 10 © KOBLASA, Pavel: Czernínová z Chudenic, p. 28 ©29. Even so, the value of the property was estimated by the Živnostenská banka in 1931 at CZK 30 to 40 million, the mortgage burden was CZK 2 million. According to the bank's opinion, the financial situation of the large estates was good until 1928 but the following beet campaigns resulted in a debt of between 7 million and 8 million CZK. According to bank findings, the sugar factories were to be modernised recently. After his arrest in September 1943, Děpold testified that he had not been politically involved during the first republic, nor was he a member of the physical training associations Sokol or Eagle. From the political streams he was in favour of Christian socialists or agrarians. NA, f. The German State Ministry for Bohemia and Moravia (hereinafter AMV 110), signed 110-11-102, Der Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei, a report from 1. 10. 1943 addressed to K. H. The Act of 10 December 1918, No. 61 Coll. of the Bohemian Aristocracy Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2005. Family Theobald Czernin and Marie Anna, born Kinski (seating). Behind them their children (from left) Anna Marie, Rudolf Děpold, Marie Felicitas, Humprecht Ottokar, Gabriela Marie and the youngest Jan Nepomuk, beginning in the 1930s. Photo: family archive of Czerninů Dymokury PD_04_2014.indb 32 15.12.14 9:27