English Translation

43a Sturm with his entry of 21 October 1938 very much kept. On 25 October 1938 the institution, presumably on just the intervention storms of 21. On 1 October 1938, the dismissal was lifted, he was given a leave of absence with the fees, and he was instructed by the Reichabank to make an insignificant suspension contribution of K 2.zoo.-- monthly until the clarification of a possible transfer, (declaration of the Netionalbank of 25th October 1938 Og-2935/3o879) Storm remained in his apartment for a few days with the bank's reimbursement. But after the Treaty of Vienna, after which Užhorod fell to Hungary, he was immediately taken out of the dungeon. The National Bank's financial services were officially evacuated, the officials were taken with, but storm eus, with which every obéorge around his person seemed to be done for the National Bank. Storm had left all his belongings in Uzhorod and before Sesetzung Uähorod drove through Hungary to Brno, where he found refuge with his parents-in-law. At the request of the Reichsban to do temporary service, he went to Karlovy Vary where he was interested in taking over in the service of the imperial department. According to the option agreement of November l9j8, however, he had remained a tachechoslovakiseh citizen and, in order to fulfil the employment conditions for the Reichsbank, had only to acquire German citizenship. r was and blied dedoch tachehoslovak citizen and did not become, vie seieraeit had accepted his institution automatioch, Reich citizen. Therefore he went to Brno (at the request of the abgeorine client to stay in his home country) to consult with the employment office of the NsDAP on his further action. On instructions of the party he remained in Brno, demanded his reinstatement from the National Bank since he had remained Czechoslovak. The institution completely ignored his request. Therefore, he called the staff secretary of the central office, who clearly explained to him that the Nati- onalbank had not the intention to reinstate a German, that he had to go to the Reich or have to look for another post. At the crack of the kärzum in 1939, Sturm again demanded his immediate reinstatement from the National Bank. Under the impression of the great events, he was reinstated with the decree of the National Bank of 15.3.1939 0s-59o/7360, but only with his basic salary and was paid the salary on his former salaries since October 1938. The obvious disadvantage he suffered from the former Czech-Slovak regime was to see that he was no longer appointed as branch director, but that all the other Czech branch directors were back in their function ./.