Translation of Michael Sadowsky's paper 'An elementary proof for the existence of a developable M\'obius band and the attribution of the geometric problem to a variational problem'

This article is a translation of Michael Sadowsky's original paper "Ein elementarer Beweis f\"ur die Existenz eines abwickelbaren M\"obiusschen Bandes und die Zur\"uckf\"uhrung des geometrischen Problems auf ein Variationsproblem." which appeared in Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, physikalisch-mathematische Klasse, 17. Juli 1930, Mitteilung vom 26. Juni, 412-415. Published on September 12, 1930.
Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, to appear in a special volume of the Journal of Elasticity entitled "The Mechanics of Ribbons and M\"obius Bands", citations of this translation should refer also to Sadowsky's original paper, as cited in the Abstract