Contains:1921 June 3 - Berlin: Minutes of the Establishment of a Committee for Catholic Schools Abroad within the RKA.11/2 S., copy of Masch.-Schreiben.1923 Febr. 17 - Berlin: Marx transmits to the Bishops the Call and the List of Honorary Committees for the Comp. For Faith and Folklore Donation of German Catholics at the Border and Abroad. Eh. Signature.1 S., Vervielf.In the Annex the Call, 1 S., Vervielf., the List of Honorary Committees, 1 S., copy of Masch.-Schreiben und Druck.1923 Febr. 23 - Hans Hartenfels b. Duisburg: Peter Klöckner writes to Marx that he has not signed calls for a long time. After all, his brother has already signed. Due to the blockade of mail, telephone and telegraph, things are going badly in the occupied territory; moreover, all cars were confiscated. But by the way, there is a firm will here to hold out for everyone without exception, and therefore the great displeasures are accepted. The workers are employed, although there can hardly be any talk of dispatch and supply. The unoccupied area must above all ensure the provision of food for the population. As long as I have been active, I have never seen such a strong will of the whole population. Unfortunately, we will have to prepare for a long time. I'm afraid the fight will take longer than half a year. Eh. Signature.P/, S., masch.-schriftl. Ausf., personal head sheets.1923 Febr. 26 - Munich: Min. Present. v. Knilling informs Marx that he has submitted a report to the Honorary Committee on ECR. For Faith and Folklore and transfers 10000 RM. Eh. Signature.1/2 p., mechanical typeface, headbow, Der Bayer. Min.-Präs.'1923 Febr. 28 - Berlin: RK Cuno asks Marx, after consultation with Brauns, for further news about the preparatory work of Slg. Then he will decide whether to join the honorary committee. Eh. Signature.1 S., mach.-typ. edition, head bow 'Der RK'.1923 March 2 - Munich: H. Held notifies Marx that he will gladly join the honorary committee and will transfer 5000,- M. Eh. Signature.1/2 p., mach.-typewritten copy, headed sheet, Der 1. Vors. der Fraktion der Bayer. Volkspartei'.1923 March 12 - Bamberg: Auxiliary Bishop Senger transmits unnamed (light?) files with greetings to Marx. Eh. Signature.1/2 half page, eh. 1923 March 14 - Berlin: Teacher H. Meier transmits a letter from Father Sonnenschein to Cardinal Bertram to Marx. It emphasizes that there is not a single Catholic in the Reich Committee of the VDA and that there must be a front against it. The signature of Cuno is valuable for the soon to be published call. Eh. Signature.2 half pages, eh. Ausf.1923 May 7 ~ Breslau: The prince-bishop informs Marx that the VDA, Landesverband Bayern, on 26. 4. by the university rector of Würzburg at the Würzburg Ordinariat has defended itself against the accusation of imparity of use of its means. Marx is asked to provide material for a detailed reply in order to remove the suspicion that the action brought is unfounded. Eh. Signature: i. A. Blaeschler.1 S., machine-printed version, head bow. Conception paraphe N(egwer?). Receiving stamp of the prince-bishop delegation Berlin of 14. 5. with paraphe D(eitmer).1923 May - Breslau: The prince-bishop curia informs Marx in writing m. d. B. about statement a letter of the ordinariate Passau to cardinal Bertram. After that, the Bayer. In 1922 the VDA sent prayer books to 17 congregations in South Tyrol, and the VDA was informed that Cardinal Schulte, Bishop Berning, Vicar Gen. Buchberger and President Prälat Kreuz were members of its executive board. The Passau Ordinariate asks Cardinal Bertram to inform it of facts which have led to a violation of Catholic interests in recent years and which show the Association's participation in the efforts of the Losvon-Rome Movement at that time. Eh. Signature: Blaeschler.11/2 p., machine-written version, head bow. Date of receipt of the prince-bishop's delegation from Berlin and date of submission from Man: 11. 5. 1923. Eh. Letter from Marx to GS m. d. B. for news about what had happened, enclosing the following two letters:1923 May 3 - Würzburg: Gen.-Vikar Weidinger transmits a letter from Bayer to Cardinal Bertram. VDA Regional Association to the Rector of Würzburg University, Prof. Ruland, on 26 April. Marx may procure the necessary documents for an answer to this and may forward these also to Gen. vicar Budlberger Munich. Gez. Signature.1 S., mach.-typewritten copy.1923 April 26 - Munich: The Bavarian Association of the VDA refers Prof. Dr. Ludwig Ruland-Würzburg, who helped the speaker of the association Hlawna in 1921 and who was himself active for the association, to the Würzburg Diocesan Gazette 14, where he refers to the Collection of the Diocesan Documents of the Würzburg Diocese. The VDA is not only aware of the 'faith and folklore', but at the same time reproaches are made against the VDA. Our point of view towards these accusations is that we are very pleased when other sides also work for the common cause of the German nation abroad. We believe, however, that the best service to this cause will be rendered if the individual associations do not fight each other, but walk quietly side by side. Ruland may the Würzburg Ordinariat point out to the religious neutrality of the association. Gen. vicar Buchberger did not approve of the attacks on the VDA and did not have them printed in the Munich Diözesanblatt. The VDA has been collecting particularly enthusiastically for 2 years; the local groups have risen from 29 to 160 and the number of members from 2300 to 31 000; 30000 pupils have been registered. Card. v. Paulhaber has supported interdenominational charity events that include the protestant. The Church President advocated the necessity of a union of the Christian denominations for charitable purposes. The VDA was founded in 1881 by the Kuraten v. Proweis on the Nonsberge Pranz X. Mitterer and was already co-led 2 decades ago by Prälat Werthmann. Cardinal Schulte, Bishop Berning and Vicar Gen. Buchberger, President Kreutz and P. Sonnenschein are members of the main committee of the VDA. The cath. influence at the VDA (is therefore) very big, especially since no prominent representative of protestant. clubs is represented in the same. The majority of the foreign Germans in Bukovina, Bessarabia, Bohemia, Moravia, South Tyrol, Northern Hungary are Catholics, and these areas are mainly Protestant. Saxony and Thuringia. It would therefore be a great damage for the Catholic cause if our association were to be blown up by the foreign donation of German Catholics to create its own protestant. I would be called to task. A number of Catholic elementary schools received grants from the VDA and a not insignificant number of clergymen received allowances on their salaries; study grants went to boy seminarians, theology and school office candidates in South Tyrol. The state association of Bavaria has burdened itself with 18 million RM in debt through the procurement of kath' prayer books. In view of Mussolini's ruthless approach in South Tyrol, where German is spoken by Italy. If the individual associations have been replaced by clergy and many only German-speaking inhabitants of the congregations have to do without sermon and confession, they should not fight each other but work side by side for the same goal. Gez. Signature: v. Witzleben, deputy chairman 4 pp., machine-written copy, attached: Excerpt from Würzburg Diocesan Gazette No. 14 of 26 March 1923 for 'Faube und Volkstum', 1/2 pp. machine-written copy; also: Advertising address of the Collection of the Holy Sepulchre No. 14 of 26 March 1923 for 'Faith und Volkstum', 1/2 pp. (192)3 May 18: Marx explains to Prelate Kreutz that various national federations of the VDA had agreed on the S1g. They complain and deny that the Catholic interests have been "unequally and unwillingly treated" by the VDA. Marx knows about the old accusation that the VDA favors the Sim(ultan)-8chulen. Kreutz may be helpful with documents that make a special S1g. of Catholics appear justified.1 S., copy of Masch.-Schreiben, without certification. In the bill: Simoniten-Schulen.1923 May 22 - Freiburg: Kreutz means to Marx that from the advertising letter for 'Faith and Volkstum' perhaps an accusation against the VDA can be presumed. An objection has been raised from Munich against a corresponding announcement in the Passauer Verordnungsblatt. In the 4 years of board membership Kreutz had no reason to complain about imparity, but could only attend board meetings regularly while he was living in Berlin. In 1920 and 1921, respectively, Cardinal Schulte and Bishop Berning were elected to the committee with great pleasure; the latter currently participates in the VDA's genealogical slurry in Hamburg. In recent years, the VDA's head office has probably been far away from a tendentious management. The spirit in the rather independent regional associations depended on the influence of the Catholic members. Admittedly, Catholics used to be indifferent to the association and left foreign schools to it. That any clergymen became active is therefore not to be reproached to them. That from that side, in the spirit of Hakatism, German was perhaps often confused with Protestant, we have already experienced elsewhere with the possible clergy. In an interview on 1. and 2. 5. Admiral Seebohm recognized for the central management of the VDA the right of its own cath. 81g. There won't be much penetrating material to gather for full evidence. The VDA has long replaced the leaders of the pre-war era. Kreutz it is inexplicable that as the oldest Catholic board member in the VDA he was not informed of the 81g plan. In the RT he tried to reach Marx in vain. P. Sonnenschein has travelled to Italy and has independently regulated his deputy in the RKA without the board. It would have been better if this association had made the 81g. with an extended action committee. Eh. Signature.21/2 p., masch.-schriftl. Ausf., Kopfbogen 'Der Präs. d. Dt. Caritasverbandes'.1923 May 24: Marx writes to Cardinal Bertram that his statements of 13 May are based on the observations made by P. Sonnenschein in the executive committee of the VDA. Despite his eager efforts, he was unable to gain any insight into the management of the company. He suspected behind it intention, particularly since he was not able to increase the number of the catholic board membersj of 20 board members 2 are catholic; of it prelate Kreutz can hardly become active because of his Freiburg residence. The VDA has asked a board member of the Slg. to provide accounting evidence that the Catholics have been duly taken into account in the distribution of support. The Ordinariates may therefore inform the complainants that the negotiations between the VDA and the Slgs management had led to the expectation of a clarification.11/2 p., copy of Masch.-Schreiben, without certification.(192)3 May 30: Marx writes to Gen.-Vikar Buchberger that the Landesverband Bayern of the VDA is in agreement on the Slg. "For faith and folklore. In recommendations of ordinariates, reference has been made to the unparity of authority of Catholics by the VDA. Marx wants it to appear that the VDA in Bavaria is taking a different path than the Prussian. In any case, before the war, the VDA preferred only the simultaneous school abroad; he was also a leader in the Los von Rome movement. It may not have been the fault of our side that we did not participate enough in the efforts of the association and tried to keep influence on the management. That has undoubtedly changed in recent years. Marx would like a judgment on the attitude of the Landesverband Bayern.P/, S., copy of Masch.-Schreiben, without certification.1923 June 4 - Munich: Buchberger to Marx: "I am very happy to be able to talk to you about caring for foreign dentists. I am a co-founder of the RKA myself. Occasionally, when this association was founded, the president of the VDA came to me and reproached me for having founded a competition. I have very seriously discussed my reasons for this with him, namely the role the club played in the Los-von-Rom movement and in the equation of German and Protestant. The situation has changed since then. In spite of all attempts - so still with the last Katholikentag - the catholic organization does not want to win right strength and life and influence for the care for the foreign Dt. Only a few weeks after the foundation of our association for Catholics abroad, the war took away the soul of Count Preysing, who was killed in Frkr. He did not receive a successor who would have time and sense for the work of the association. On the other hand, at the head of the Bavarian regional association of the VDA, there is a good Catholic who not only takes care of his association, but would also fulfill every wish for me. I have therefore had no reservations about joining the VDA myself under the changed circumstances at the request of Prof. Dr. Deuerling. As the situation in Bavaria is, there really would be no reason to take a stand against the VDA in any way; one can regret that this happened without first examining the situation more closely. Buchberger encloses a letter from Deuerling, to which Marx may find a friendly word to write good. Eh. Signature.2 S., eh. Ausf., head bow 'Das Ordinariat des Erzbistums München-Freysing'.[192]3 June 28: Marx answers Buchberger that the conditions in Bavaria are different than in Prussia. The circular of 'Faith and Folklore' is, however, only from the knowledge of the Prussians. conditions have emerged. Only the prelates Werthmann and Kreutz were able to gain an insight into the VDA's business practices. In the future the cath. interests will be probably better considered there. The VDA has offered to provide proof of sufficient consideration of Catholic interests. From time to time Marx would like to recognize Prof. Deuerling for the achievements of the bayer, VDA. On the Catholic side, everything must be done to be present in the large organizations; in the past, it was probably not always ridiculous in this respect. Much of what is lamented on our part may not have been brought about by ourselves through the development of things without our fault.11/% S., copy of Masch.-Schreiben, without certification.1923 July 9 - Munich: The Bavarian Association of the VDA writes to the Ordinariate in Passau that it is the high kirdll. The body which sent the note complained of has become known in the meantime. Like the Passau Ordinariate, the office repeated the indications of 'faith and folklore' without its own knowledge of the facts in good faith. These have not yet been proven. The VDA, however, has endeavoured to clarify the error in good faith. Among the misleaders are persons who have a precise insight into the activities of the VDA's Board of Directors. The bavarian. Landesverband works almost exclusively for the Catholic Germans abroad; he feels badly damaged by the note spread by the Ordinariates. In the negotiations between VDA and 'faith and folklore' nothing will come out, since the latter is to be denied serious will, 'faith' where they have a young settlement, 3 years ago a benevolent consul v. Lenz officiated, who was soon transferred to Rome. A Jude Neumayer, I believe a wealthy Viennese merchant, now manages the German consulate with his talkative wife. His administration is lamented by the Catholic Germans as lacking understanding. When an elderly German woman in Turin went insane, Neumayer said to the sisters, "Take this person into your house, put a nun's cap on him, and let this person work for you". During the war, the German interests of the Swiss
