Press Release from August 1, 2001

Forced opening of a safe deposit box at the Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming:In this safe deposit box there were among other items plans of the storage locations of flying disks of the German Reich and their construction plans, as well as explosive documents about Hans-Dietrich Genscher.

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Diplomatic Mission of the Principality of Sealand in the German Empire

Kreissparkasse (District Savings Bank) Teltow-Fläming
The breaking open of our safe deposit box No. 63/R:

The safe deposit box mentioned contained – among other items – plans indicating where German flying disks and their construction plans were stored, documents proving that Hans-Dietrich Genscher had collaborated for more than thirty years with the former Stasi (State Secret Service) as scout for the former GDR, papers about payments of commissions amounting to millions paid to well-known politicians of the FRG for mediating the billion Deutschmark credit to the former GDR.

On our homepage you can read how the Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming had denounced – with immediate effect – in a letter of February 3, 2000 its contract with Johannes W. F. Seiger, and in a letter of February 7, 2000 its contract with the Sealand Trade Corporation, which is wholly owned by the Principality of Sealand.

In a letter dated April 1, 2000, from the lawyers representing the Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming, Sobczak & Kollegen, in Zossen, Johannes W. F. Seiger was with immediate effect denied access to all premises of the Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming. Then, in a letter dated May 2, 2000, the lawyers Sobczak & Kollegen asked Mr. Seiger to return to the Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming before May 22, 2000 the keys to the safe deposit box, which at that time contained very important and disruptive documents belonging to the Sealand Trade Corporation. Should the keys not be handed in by May 22, 2000, the safe deposit box No. 63/R would be broken into by the Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming.

In the meantime the Sealand Trade Corporation wrote on April 29, 2000 to the lawyers Sobczak & Kollegen that Mr. Seiger and Mr. Sauerbrey had gone to the Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming to close the account and to empty the safe deposit box No. 63/R. However, the Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming denied them both access to the safe deposit box as well as the clearing of the credit balance on the account No. 2632302938 of the Sealand Trade Corporation.

The Diplomatic Mission of the Principality of Sealand in the German Empire (legal department) therefore had to demand in a letter of June 8, 2000, that the lawyers Sobczak & Kollegen bring their client, the Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming, to hand over before June 16, 2000 all the documents contained in the safe deposit box to Mr. Seiger in person. At the same time it was pointed out to the Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming that in case of nonobservance of the deadline set compensation at initially DEM 1’000,– per day would be charged for the losses due to delays in publication on the internet caused by withholding the said documents.

Because the Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming despite the demands for compensation did not react to the legitimate demands of the Sealand Trade Corporation, an invoice dated October 31, 2000, was sent to them, amounting to DEM 138’000,– and covering the damage caused in the period from June 16 to October 31, 2000 (138 days).

The Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming reacted neither to this nor to the following invoice of November 30, 2000, upon which the Sealand Trade Corporation informed the chairmen of the board of the Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming, Mr. Dieter Jansen and Mr. Hans-Joachim Beilmann, that starting January 1, 2001, a daily compensation of DEM 100’000,– would be charged, and starting February 1, 2001, of DEM 1’000’000,–, because we had found a huge increase in the demand on the internet for the documentation held in the safe deposit box.

Following this further invoices were sent by the Sealand Trade Corporation to the Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming on February 1, 2001, March 1, 2001, and April 2, 2001 regarding the compensation. On April 2, 2001, the total amounted to DEM 62’578’000,–.

Only under the pressure of this enormous sum of compensation (DEM 62’578’000,–) did the Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming see fit, after more than nine months, to react to the letters and invoices sent by the Sealand Trade Corporation. The lawyers Sobczak & Kollegen imparted that on April 9, 2001, they would hand over the documents contained in the safe deposit box that in the meantime had been forced open in the presence of a notary public.

On June 26, 2001 in the office of the lawyers Sobczak & Kollegen, 15806 Zossen, the attorney Thomas Petter handed over the purportedly sealed contents of the safe deposit box No. 63/R that had been forced open on March 14, 2001. At the same time a notarised version of the protocol issued by the notary public Wolf-Dietrich Gattner, under UR No. 326/2001, was given to the Sealand Trade Corporation.

Notarised Protocol

In this notarised protocol ( transcription and facsimile), the notary public Gattner states that the safe deposit box belonged to Mr. Johannes Seiger who according to the safe deposit box lease acted on behalf of the Principality of Sealand, Sealand Trade Corporation, Markt 9 at 33378 Rheda-Wiedenbrück.

This confirms that the safe deposit box had been unlawfully broken open and its contents had been accessible at least to the persons mentioned in the notarised protocol of notary public Gattner of March 14, 2001, UR No. 326/2001. The sealing of the contents as claimed by attorney Thomas Petter had not taken place. It is conceivable that the disruptive contents of the safe deposit box could, as indicated above, be misused due to its political and economic extortion potential. This is exactly what we wanted to exclude and prevent. Thus we explicitly renounce any responsibility for an eventual misuse of the disruptive contents of the safe deposit box.

Until the surrender of the documents contained in the safe deposit box No. 63/R on June 26, 2001, the Sealand Trade Corporation claimed compensation from the Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming amounting to a total of DEM 149’578’000.– (Deutschmark one hundred and forty-nine million five hundred and seventy-eight thousand)!

The Plenipotentiary of the Commissary Government of the German Empire has started preliminary inquiries for treason and high treason against Messrs. Dieter Jansen and Hans-Joachim Beilmann, leading members of the Board of Directors of the Kreissparkasse Teltow-Fläming, as well as against Mr. Udo Kreienbaum, its regional director.

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Diplomatic Mission of the Principality of Sealand in the German Empire

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Hans Jürgen Sauerbrey
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