THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1120, sig. 110-11/58

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48 - Sheet 2 - 3. is the sudden and everywhere arising enthusiasm for hunting, which is led away from the thought of making meat and lacks any ideal basic situation, is to take up with special caution. The overtaking of the hunting licence applicants has also caused the master of the Reichsjäger to pass the tests by the direction of the leader. In order to obtain the hunting licence, or to leave open only for applicants under 25 years. Since similar phenomena have also occurred in the Protectorate, ea d a caa Rein was granted an exemption for Germans for reasons of national politics. However, as far as the few hunters of Branowitz today are concerned, this should in fact be done in order to maintain their hitherto illegitimate share of the high level of game held in the representational hunting area of Seelowitz, for which the neighbourly position of both districts seems particularly favourable. The refusal of the chief hunter of Branowitz to lease the hunting district to the representational hunt, however, may not be factually correct or false, it must be overlooked that the lease is not an act of voluntaryness, which is subject to the assessment of the party concerned, but that there is an official mandate, legally justified, issued by the German commissary head of the supreme hunting authority and involved in the execution of which autonomous officials of the lower hunting authority are involved. The refusal of the German hunting chief, the order of the the participating authorities should not remain unknown, so little yield must lead to a loss of the German authority and may further lead to the fact that also the other affected Czech municipalities place the same demand, whereby in turn the necessary rounding off of the representation hunting area of the Herm Reichsprotector would be thwarted. According to § lo para.3 of the Reg. Ordinance 127/4l, the chief of the hunt is subject to the supervision of the lower hunting authority. If he refuses to carry out official orders, he must therefore be dismissed from the responsible district authorities and used in his place a suitable replacement. The hunt Branowitz itself is to be regarded as one of the main hunts of the representative hunting area. Their preservation as part of the representation /1