THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 908, sig. 109-4/661

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Security service 25 Olmütz, 7.11. 1941. Olmüz. W yuf.L.n4.134/47 4/2b To the contact guide of the SD - guide section Prague 4 Standartenführer B ö h m e Prague 5169 :. B L Standarteführer ! I receive from 4-HauptsturmführER F e n d l e r from Berlin information about OLR M o l s e n , which causes me to contact you personally. After notification of 4-H Stuf. Fendler was OLR M o 1 s e n in the East Ministry in Berlin, where he talked about his further use with the currently active 4-Hauptsturmführer, Reg.Rat H e s s (composition of the reports submitted about H. so far to the LA see Schlu). Molsen is therefore expected to be used further in the east (Kiev). It seems, therefore, that he himself realizes that his position here has become impossible. As a successor to the post of OLR in Olomouc, the MdI is the former Oberlandrat of Zlin, H o p f. Hopf is currently in the air regiment in Olmouc around now to be called up for these purposes by the military service. Hoppf's departure from Zlin is szt. This was very surprising because his position there had become difficult. An installation of Hopf near his former sphere of activity is therefore not very happy, but it will also be very questionable in the MdI whether his exemption from the Wehrmacht takes place. The most suspicious thing, however, is that this plan is based on OLR Molsen, but at least with his consent. Reg.Rat Hess, about whom I gave you a lecture some time ago and who used to be a police officer at the OLR in Olomouc, would like to return to the Protectorate, if possible to Olomouz. The cooperation with Hess was very excellent in Olmütz, also in his later sphere of influence Posen with the SD, as I know myself, very close and his further use in the protectorate is desirable. He is at present only temporarily in his present position, but it is already very promising to him -2-