STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 375, sig. 109-4/120

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bV German Party Smolenice, at Smolenice Jhr Beichen: Unfer Signs: Subject: In the answer specify sheet 2. replaces etc.etc. For example, the sudetenGerman forestry master Josef Seidl, director of the forestry office, has resigned from Jédweden Grund and has been appointed to his stables as forest master by the foreman of the former forest administrator, Cheche Václav Tichý.The sudetGerman forestry champion Josef Seidel has been looking for his right in the Czech courts for about 5 years until he finally found it after the declaration of independence of Slovakia before the Slovak courts.The owner must now, of course, pay the sum of more than Ks 4oo.ooo.--. The Czech coercive administrator, Kalvoda, was in a similar position with the countenance of Hadik in Slovakia, who filed a criminal complaint against him for infidelity in service.The Czech court, however, closed the proceedings, despite the fact and the fact that, in the course of that error, the court confirmed the gross misconduct of the Kalvodah, could not be removed here either. The harassment on the part of the forced administration towards Count Pálffy and the German employees began in an increased extent.For example, a German official was immediately dismissed after around Zo-years of service after illness and expiry of the legal protection period, while a Czech employee was in any case partly on full, partly half-time notice, despite repeated more than half-yearly illness. The well-known Czech banking methods were obviously intended to transfer possession into Czech hands, with the chemical factories in particular being envisaged.Openly, this intention came to light when the former Czech Ministry of Finance made the execution of a floating tax negotiation dependent upon the sale of the chemical plants to a buyer / Zivno group, which is to be called by the Kinisterium. This plan became typical in time for the operation and proof that the Czech banks did not want to collect their money in the first row, but had other purposes in the Sudeten-Taadat empire.The following: Over the years, the stock-keeping industry introduced had accumulated certain reserves of wood, the presence of which was officially confirmed.By selling these resserves and other parts of the estate, Mr. Josef Graf Pálffy would have been able to free himself from the worst pressure of the banks.The tachechian b.w.