English Translation

Section Ix of the Ministry of Agriculture I b 1 Be/Ka. Reference number: Prague II, 14 May 1942 (Indicate reply) Wenpeisplat No. 52 Ferntuf: 304-51 C.r Rel tehtar An den ia 1en u. Lten. ingangsftelle. Herrn Reichsprotektor Cingc3.: 16. V.1942 in Böhmen und Mähren, Anl.Bearbo.. on l4.l2.l9ll in Znaim, S Wehr-Nr.: Munich III, 11/179/22/8 competent military registration office: Budweis, e.g.: SS-Sanitary School (Russian school) in Prague XIV, Pragerstr. The interim head of the Directorate-General of Forestry and Goods has applied for the UK. position of the above-mentioned employee with the group Food and Agriculture of the Reichsprotector and justified as follows: Bauer has been responsible for the management of the Breweries' Superior Administration Beneschau since lo.ll.l939 and for the supervision of the external offices of the breweries in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Mahren. These are breweries, which for the most part carry out deliveries to the Wehrmacht, the canteens of the Waffen-SS, all hospitals of the Wehrenkreis Prague, the most important military operations of the whole area, as well as to the military training area Beneschau. In addition, a larger number of forced-managed enterprises, which have to be placed under German leadership for state police and war management reasons, will be added. For the above reasons, Mr Bauer is indispensable for the general division of forests and goods in order to fulfil the tasks of state and food policy given to him in the context of the production battle, especially since under the present circumstances no suitable specialist can be found as a substitute. Since Bauer is to be entrusted with the superintendent of the brewery Budweis, which is under compulsory administration until now, which has an annual discharge of 170,000 hl, I ask you to take the appropriate steps to ensure that the person named, who was on 23rd of January, b.w.