STATE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN CHEIN AND MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1465, sig. 109-4/1219

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=10=, the level of German craftsmen fell more and more. From the present member state of the Central Association of Craftsmen, the German share of members is unlikely to exceed 5%. The possibility of the Czech Handwerite promotion could be expanded accordingly, and the Nad a established schools were trained, craftsmen on its fleece and its viesen and the school-like education of the apprentices was only too often reserved private institutions of the German trade associations or German municipalities. As unhealthy as this development was for the German crafts in general, he remained in an inextricably limited mass of the tendency to craft advertising work. What some German masters created in these times guaranteed the German craft spirit full recognition also in circles of the other camp. It is not by chance, but because of the conditions in the time of the Czechoslovak regime, that German handicrafts from the Sudeten region and those from the area of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were in good reputation almost all over the world and that the German master as well as Geselle became a sought-after employee in enterprises of foreign countries. What the homeland denied him under the given circumstances, he carried out in all directions of the world in order to bear witness to the never-ending creative power of the German artisanal spirit. Urgent_Present tasks: The integration of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia into the Great German Economic Area did immediately break down the previously existing conditions. In turn, the German craftsman was given a wider living space and the opportunity to develop better.