STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 933, sig. 109-4/686

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20 presidents no longer bearable for the German reputation and proposed to Vice-President Schubert the termination. The head of the NsDAP, who, through Mrs. Rütz, sent a complaint to the district administration because of her almost painful behavior, described her apartment as a "gypsy camp". She had almost no furniture, had her things disorderly in standing suitcases and slept with her about 13-year-old son in a bed. On the basis of my lecture, which was confirmed by the personal speaker of Vice President Schubert, Mr. Stauber, in every way, Vice President Schubert gave Mrs. Rütz the resignation. She immediately came to me to complain about this in her tremendously exhilarating way. I finally calmed her down and told her that she would immediately look around for a different position, that I would hold back a formal termination until then. However, she did not make any arrangements for this, but repeated her complaints on a daily basis, frequently incurring a loss of temperament, which in itself would have given sufficient reason for a dismissal without notice. During these days, Vice-President Schubert's inception of the disease accident occurred, which, of course, was in no way in the causal relationship with her dismissal. When she repeated to me every day her decision not to leave on her own initiative, but to allow her to resign from the authority, I gave her a final date for her decision to voluntarily seek a position in peace if she had to expect her resignation from the agency, and in the first case I offered her my support for finding a new position. A few days later, when Minister Naudé took up the post as President of the Kånmissarische Landesvize, he decided that once again the attempt should be made to employ Mrs. Rütz in another department. She immediately wanted to overtake him with her complaints - 7 -