Nowa Rzeczpospolita daily reports on a case that outraged the musical circles and led Koffler to sue Dr Schafer for defamation.
In a conversation with musician Zofia Lissa, PhD, concerning support for MTW conservatoire from the MWRiOP [Ministry of Religious Affairs and Public Education] Dr Schafer, a well-known Lwów-based music connoisseur in charge of the Małopolska Music Society (MTW) and the conservatoire it maintains, supposedly claimed that Dr Józef Koffler, a music teacher, would obtain it all [i.e. such support] since he is a close acquaintance of Dr Stefan Lidzki-Śledziński, the main MWRiOP executive for musical affairs. Furthermore, he supposedly added that Dr Koffler explained his connections by the fact that he had assisted Mr Lidzki-Śledziński during his studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where the latter obtained a doctoral degree from the philosophical department in 1922. A rumour arose, nobody knows how, that Mr Śledziński’s doctoral dissertation had in fact been written by Dr Józef Koffler.