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Brno, 12h2.4plc te C.gesu ickgale) Einig.: 14. FEB. 1945 F/tv Report for Ministerial Councillor Geheim Dr. G i e s. A.16845y Subject: Schanzbeit Brünn Betreuung. I received a telephonic message on February 1st from Brno that probably the evening before my supervisor Pg. Neumann shot himself. A note was found by the police at the table of his hotel room, on which it was written: "I can't do it anymore," Neumann. Just before his death, Nuemann gave me reports from which I had to conclude that he would not be able to cope with the difficulties caused by the administration and that he therefore considered the tasks I had entrusted him to be impracticable. He had also sent a telegram to my department two days before his death: to carry out exceptional care, as the administration completely fails. Intrusive weather problems create maladministration among the workers. Disaster inevitable. Their presence absolutely necessary. Neumann". I gave this telegram to SS Standartenführer Fischer and asked him to call Mr. Oberlandrat Eckold and ask him to stop Mr. Upperlandrat Schmelzlein as soon as possible for Brno. Due to my personal impression in the previous week and according to Neumann's reports, I had to assume that the situation in Brno could only be administratively regenerated by a strong man of the Schmelzlein format. Mr Oberlandrat Eckold, however, raised the issue of standartendührer Fischer and declared that the initial difficulties that would be raised in the course of the planned reorganization were in Brno. After receiving the news about the nlste 'Seibstmord Neumanns immediately drove to Brno and today I have Elng.: einyRLa9Agere and very thorough meeting with Oberlandrat 24.2.45. fuenp fehinita pesids mad Kenutinnalne Mug. Leibot hotenns line thhn seinen Beridte piglen hanen,tiid 1 4-445 seimmget sofo uit ilun fupad! bis weitere gitumen arbin priaden ug.itohümis ink idengah. gfmtu.