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Rudolf and Humprecht Czerninová from Chudenic Memory and History 2014/04 37 The Rudolph Děpold Czernino family was, meanwhile, evicted from the Dymokur Castle to the manor of his brother Humprecht in Hlušice, who did not live there at the time. In June 1942 he was a victim of the conspiracy of the Gestapo in Cologne, which resulted in his arrest and subsequent conviction to death. The design of the action led by the Nazis to the Humphrecht Czernin was more complex and more tragic than Rudolf Děpold's case. The first was Paul Feustel, the head of the Gestapo of Cologne in the fateful time,38 who had been successful in April 1944 after being trusted by the management of the service in Benešov u Prahy and in addition in December 1944 was transferred to Chrudim, where from mid-month the anti-partisan Sonderkommando worked. However, the function in Bene šov continued until 7 May 1945.39 Feustell, born 30. On July 1899 in Lengenfeld (Voigtland, Germany), he was an original businessman. Later he became a member of the Regional Police in Dresden, since 1934 he was already a political officer of the Dresdan Police Presidium. After two years of service he went to the Gestapo in 1936 and entered the NSDAP in 1937. He was a really capable and executive official, as evidenced by his work in Cologne. He developed considerable activity in this function, which was especially reflected in the period of heydri-chiads. In June 1942, more people from Cologne, Nymburk, Poděbrad and Čáslav were shot in the design of the Gestapo. At the Gestapo Feustel had the rank of CSI, as a member of the SS rank SS-Hauptsturmführer. On 6 May 1945 he left Cologne and went to Hof in Bavaria. According to his driver's statement he intended to get to his family somewhere in Voigtland.40 In Hof he changed into a uniform of a simple soldier. He escaped with the documents of a commercial employee of the Cologne refinery mine-raal oils and later became again a trader.41 The second person who played a role in non-bliss in the arrest of Hum-precht Czernin was Ing. František Dvořák, born on December 10, 1912 in Přemyslí. He graduated from the High School of Forest Engineering in Prague. In the early 1940s he worked as a forestry engineer on the large estate of Count Sternberg in Zásmuky u Kolín. Because there was no systemized place for possibly married forest official and the corresponding housing conditions, he moved from 1 January 1942 to the services of Count Czernino to the Vel-kastatek Hlušice u Nový Bydžov. Here he performed the function of a separate forest farmer and a forest geometry and had a total of four subordinate hajné. His main task was to provide forest operation, i.e. logging, forest-foresting, forest protection and hunting. After his arrival he was temporarily accommodated in Czernin's chateau in Hlušice, and the order police and he was also subject to supervision of the transport of material RuSha to Dymokur in August 1943. ABS, f. 325, signed 325-17-1, Racial Office in Dymokury, undated. 37 © The first transport train left Berlin on 19 August 1943. On 21 August at 10 a.m. stopped at the railway station in Dymokury. The commander of the transport got from the large estate to land two trucks and a tractor with a lift. At first, the wagons with the settlement office were unloaded, in the afternoon a number of goods came to the main supply department, probably belonging to the Organizational and Administrative Office. Delivery of goods to the castle ended at 19.20. The last transport, this time in the opposite direction and after the Elbe, took place in April 1945 and ended in Ústí nad Labem. The cargo was unloaded and stored somewhere near the city. On the site in Dymokury there remained other goods, which were then secured by the revolutionary national committee. There was also a wagon of children's toys. Ibid. 38 © Circuits of the services of the Gestapo and individual Oberlandrats were identical. May 1939 issued a decree on the organization of secret state police (Gestaga) in the Protectorate. During May and June, a normal police apparatus was created in the Czech lands. On the site of the original branches were established from summer to September 1939 a normal branch of the Gestapo, called from September (except Prague and Brno) the outdoor service Gestapa (Aussendienststelle). Closer Jelínek, Zdeněk: The Nazi Occupy Administration in Kolín between 1939 and 1945. In: POSPÍŠILOVÁ, Alena (ed.): The work of the museum in Cologne, St.3rd Regional Museum of Cologne, Cologne 1984, p. 199©227, specifically p. 209.39 © In this function he was to combat guerrilla movements in eastern Bohemia, especially in the Železné hora Mountains and in Českomoravské vrchoviny. 398/66-K, 19 September 1966, Memorial file in criminal case of the accused Paul Feustel 1966. 41 © Ibid., signed: 325-121-1, No. VS-0096/230-70, Paul Feusetel, report, 5.12. 1970. Head of the Cologne and Benešov Office of the Gestapo Paul Feuser in uniform of the SS Photo: ABS PD_04_2014.indb 37 15.12.14 9:27