STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1311, sig. 109-4/1065

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N I l a - li43 g Prac, October 10, 1940 Administrative report for Sep:ember l940. A) General_Development and popular politics. Orgenisation In the period under review, some organizational changes - Touosden Dn were in the foreground, which serve a further summary and policy simplification of the Reich administration in the Protectorate. First, the authority of the Reich Protector was given a final organizational form based on the experience gained since the establishment of the Protectorate. The subordination of the individual groups under divisions was well established in the general and internal administration (Division I) and in the economic administration (division II) and was transferred to all branches of administration. The groups Justice and Education and Culture, as well as Higher Education with Division I, the Financial Group with Division II, the Railway, Post, Road Transport and Road Transport Groups have been merged into Division III, and the Cultural Policy Group has been elevated to Division IV. The independent departments for spatial planning in Division I and Reichsbank in Division Il, as well as the areas for road transport and waterways of the former group Verkelr could be transformed into groups corresponding to their importance. In addition, groups were given the Department for Higher Education in the Education and Culture Group and the Departments of the Cultural Policy Group of the previous Group. The form of the Regulation was chosen in order to highlight the permanent Sharakter of the Reclassification. The now reached criminal structure of the behurde emphasizes once again the idea of working together in Linne of the administrative unit and further the priority of the political leadership, which experiences a relief of technical questions. With the 1 October l940, the reorganization of the Oberlandratskezirke in Bohemia entered into force, on the basis of which two Upper Land Councillors, Doutsch-Brod and Melnik, were dissolved.