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Rudolf and Humprecht Czerninová of Chudenic Memory and History 2014/04 35 Czech and forestry enterprises of several families of Czech nobles whose members were behind ©Declaration of members of old families due to the inviolability of the territory of the Czech state © 17 September 1938. This affected the family property of 28 members of the Czech noble families.27 For his involvement in all de-clarations, Rudolf Děpold Czernin did not escape the penalty in the first wave. His agricultural assets, industrial companies and the castle were imposed on forced administration already on 19 February 1942. As with a number of other noble properties, the first- of the public and the second-republik laws supplemented by the Reichs laws implemented in the Protectorate legislation were used here. To impose forced sprá- you on such enterprises was necessary the welfare of the agricultural official of the respective Oberlandrate and later the county governor. The German Ru-dolf Hölzl.28 Czernin's self-stocking rations were collected and issued only ordinary food tickets, from the income of the estate was replaced by small gages for him and his family. In April 1942, Rudolf Děpold, after consulting with the Association of Large-Storeyers through Berlin's attorneys Dr. Magerstein, Dr. 29 The unlawfulness of the act was assured by Captain Schutzpolizei Rinneba- chem30, as well as by Chlumecký Z. R. Kinský. Dr. Bönicke spoke about the imposition of forced administration with the head of NSDAP Martin Bormann. In July Czernin was closer to the unspecificated prince Lob- kowicz or Dr. Magerstein wrote that Dr. Zarnack was warned by the state secretary to keep his hands off this matter. Of course, Czer-nina was not happy with these reports, so he was going to get more money for defending his cause. 31 Rudolf Děpold was then supposed to say that he was retreating from violence, but protesting the confiscation of property.32 Bilance of the total land damage of the signatories to the declarations submitted on 20 July 1945 to the Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk Dr. Jan Lobkowicz, owner of the estate Drahenice. After the war he was investigated as a war criminal. 29 © Dr. Wolfgang Zarnack represented in the case of forced administration also Zdenek Radslav Kinský and his relative František Kinský from Kos-telec nad Orlicí. NA, f. Office of the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, k. 81, signed 109-4, p. 1337. Czernin stated in his statement that he met Zarnock twice in Prague. He remembered that he had a gold party badge NSDAP in his lapel, and from Dr. Bönicke he knew that he was in a very good position in Berlin. NA, f. AMV 110, signed 110-11-102, Report by Krim. kom. Fuchse of 28 September 1943. 30 © Rinnebach was led by the Nazi authorities administrative proceedings on this basis. More details about this case are not known. The head office of the State Security Department 1945©1948 (305), signed 305-510-6. Jan Lobkowicz handed over to President Hácha on 9 October 1942 a document in which Czech nobles asked him to intervene in the case of forced administration on the large estates of affected Czech noblemen. In the document is the Castle in Dymokury and Rudolf Děpold Czernin in the 1930s. So far the family lived in a villa in the village. The dispute between him and the state dragged on until 1952 when the property was returned to him and still the same day nationalized... In 1964 he emigrated with his wife to Austria where he died in 1984. Photo: archive of author and family archive of Czerninů Dymokury PD_04_2014.indb 35 15.12.14 9:27