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26 transcript! Dr. WALTER BERTSCH PRAG XIX, November 3, 1943 MINISTER FOR ECONOMIC AND WORKING IN THE PROTECTOR GOVERNMENT BUBENTSCHERSTRASSE 22 - No. 2137/43 - registered! Mr. Ministerial Director a.D. M a r o t z k e Chairman of the Klöckner-Werke A.G. Duisburg Klockner-Haus. Dear Mr. Marotzke! First of all I thank you again for your visit from 23rd to 23rd Mts. It was valuable for me to be able to talk to Jhnen about the forthcoming meeting of the Board of Directors and General Assembly of the Batá A.G. in Zlin and, above all, about the work of Klöckner in Gurein. Since the Ministry of Finance has still not issued the regulations on the introduction of corporate tax and in connection with the revaluation of the balance sheets, the balance sheet meeting of 1942 can take place at Batá at the earliest in mid-December of the year. I have heard from Jhnen, with special interest, that it is intended to assign Jhren's colleagues in the Board of Management, Mr. S t e i n, to Gurein. This would express the importance of Jhres's company to the large plant in Brno, which is under construction. Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank Mr Stein for his excellent report, which is a very good one, and I would also like to congratulate him on his excellent work. They receive their particular emphasis by the workers who have been seconded here from Hamburg to a large extent. From the cooperation and from the living together= with the protectorate members there are danger moments, which must not be underestimated. Whether director Messerschmidt, we also talked about this person/and his agility, should not be doubted in any way, will meet these very difficult social questions in the long run alone, I would like to leave it to be stated. 363