GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 766, sig. 110-5/56

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Annex 9 III G - Hn./Th. Prague, 29.1.1945 16 Subject: Hans Graf Coudenho ve-Kalergi born 15.9.1893 in Tokyo, married Helene Lilly S Steinschneider, born 13.1.1989 in Budapest, residing in Ronsperg b.Bischofteinitz/Sudetengau. Count Hans C o u d e n h o v e is the brother of the well-known pan-European Dr. Richard Coudenhoove-Kalergi. The blood mixture caused by the marriage of his father Heinrich Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi with the Japanese Midsui A o y a m a may have influenced the unusual characteristics of Count Hans Coudenhoove and his siblings. His insatiability and strong erotic tendencies have become quite well known in the narrower and wider surroundings of Ronsperg and also in Prague. His marriage to the Jewish pilot Lilly S t e i n s c h n e i d e r from Budapest, who went to Rome after the arrival of the Sudeten German territories and stayed there until the occupation by the Allies, also leads to little popular awareness, especially since he visited them frequently and allegedly tries to have them declared a hybrid today. Count Hans Coudenhove is often in Prague and is mainly associated with the Swiss Consul General H u b e r and the portrait painter Prof. Egon K o s s u t h. In addition, Coudenhove's relations with Vienna could be established as Countess B u b n a , Ester-hazy-Gasse l0, with a woman R a t a y , Freindlstr.25, with the Duke of C r o y in Dülmen and with a wife Eva M o r e l 1 in Glauchau, Schlosstr.27, which is considered n.s. hostile and very Jewish friendly. In addition to the circle of the parties involved, at the beginning of the year, a company scandal became known, in which Count Couden-hove was involved. Count C.-K. stayed with the Italian Consul General and his wife, the Duchess C a p e c e - G a l e o t a in April v.J. in the Prague coffee restaurant Mánes. Sje retreated to an extra room when the b.w.