[Pencil note]
Phone: 165861 settled by tel. 7th Jan 37
[sign.] Limberger
Miss Grundtmann
Keppler should be told by telephone:
1. He should do everything to avoid the resignation of Councillor of State Dr. Seyss-Inquart and State-Minister [Bundesminister] Glaise von Horstenau. If some difficulties should arise, Mr. Seyss-Inquart should come to him first of all.
2. Mr. Leopold has already been ordered but has not received the permission to leave his country at the present. The General (der Herr Generaloberst) intends to receive him on the 14th or 15th of January, so that he can give him very definite instructions.
Carinhall, January 6th 1938
(signed) G. Limberger
3-473—PS
3473-PS
Berlin W8, Behrenstr. 39a
Phone. 165861 6 January 1938
Main Office for the Organizations of National Economy of the NSDAP
Prime Minister General Goering Secretary General
(Stamp) Arr. Jan 6 1938
Chief: W. Keppler [Letterhead]
To: Minister President General Goering
Berlin W 8 Leipziger Strasse 3,
Most honorable General!
Councillor of State Dr. Seyss-Inquart has sent a courier to me with the report that his negotiations with the Federal Chancellor Dr. Schuschnigg have run aground, so that he feels compelled to return the mandate entrusted to him. Dr. Seyss-Inquart desires to have a discussion with me regarding this, before he acts accordingly.
May I ask your advice, whether at this moment such a step— entailing automatically, also, the resignation of the Federal Minister Glaise von Horstenau—appears indicated or whether I should put forth efforts to postpone such an action.
Furthermore, I have information to the effect that Landesleiter Captain Leopold deposed Dr. Jury, his deputy, while the latter was here in Germany.
Captain Leopold is attempting again and again to make his own policy which is in opposition to the wishes of the decisive authorities in the Reich, and continuously obstructs the pending negotiations carried on by Dr. Seyss-Inquart, Dr. Jury, and the consultants for national-political affairs (volkspolitischen Referenten).
I take the liberty to pass on to you a copy of a directive of military nature which incidentally came into my hands. It discloses further measures concerning the German border.
May I once more ask you, honorable General, for an audience in order to discuss my further activity in the field of economic politics.
Heil Hitler!
Your sincerely devoted
[signed] Keppler
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Notes and a letter to Goering on political negotiations in Austria and the need to give instructions to Nazi agents there
Authors
G. Limberger (operative in German-Austrian negotiations (early 1938))
Gisela Limberger
Göring's private secretary (1893-1980)
- Born: 1893-08-30
- Occupation: secretary
Wilhelm Keppler (NSDAP economic office; agent in Vienna (1938))
Wilhelm Keppler
businessman; Reich Commisionner (1882-1960)
- Born: 1882-12-14 (Heidelberg)
- Died: 1960-06-13 (Friedrichshafen)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Germany; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
- Occupation: engineer; entrepreneur; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel
- Position held: Reichskommissar (period: 1938-01-01 through 1939-01-01); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Date: 06 January 1938
Defendants: Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-3473
Citation: IMT (page 2308)
HLSL Item No.: 452330
Notes:Limberger's notes respond to Keppler's letter to Goering.
Trial Issue
Document Summary
PS-3473: Letter from Keppler to Goering re Austria
PS-3473: Letter from Keppler to GÖring, 6 January 1938, concerning Seyss-inquart’s possible resignation, and concerning the policy pursued by capt. Leopold in contravention of Reich directives; GÖring’s reaction to this
PS-3473: Signed Letter, dated 6 January 1938, from Keppler to Goering, reporting on the Austrian situation to date, and suggesting certain procedures to be followed in the future.