Germany'S MINISTRY FOR CHEATURES AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 161, sig. 110-4/6

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97 — Immediately after the return of the ethnic German university teachers, with the Baltic countries providing the measures for the largest percentage, the Reichsführer 3, Reichskommissar für die Festigung die umgesiedten deutschen Volkstums, the Imperial Minister for Science, Education and Adult Education, University Teachers and Afsisten and the Reich Minister of Finance agreed the measures to be taken for their economic security and their planned incorporation into the university administration (see 220 et seq.) It was considered that a definitive use of the relevant staff in the higher education service should be ensured as soon as possible, but that professional competence should be taken into account in a final meeting at certain points. Befonders was large the number of theologians who were only included in the care measures of the Reichsministerium for science, education and popular education in befonders stored cases, while in the larger Jahl of cases the Reich. The Ministry for Ecclesiastical Affairs has been entrusted with the task of ensuring the use of the latter in practical church service. Approximately 140 professors, lecturers and assistants from various disciplines have been covered by the action for the economic security and accommodation of the people of Germany. After being released from the collection of food, the University Commissioner in Poznan carried out the temporary guarantee of the repatriated university teachers from the funds of the Reichsstatthalter of the Imperial Gaues Wartheland until 31 March 1940. On 1 April, the measures to temporarily secure the repatriated university teachers and assistants were implemented centrally by the Reichsministerium für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Bolksbildung. On the basis of the results available so far, the final use of national German university teachers and assistants at scientific universities in the Reich is only possible in individual cases in the absence of free posts. Only these will therefore be able to be taken out of temporary care, and the far greater number will have to continue to be looked after for the time being. In general, for the majority of German university teachers and assistants, there is the need to adapt the level of performance previously to the conditions at a German scientific university, to the scientists' rights and duties as teachers, as well as their previous scientific work to the requirements of German research and teaching, which are partly completely new to them. The majority of these forces have never worked at a German scientific university, so that their integration into a German university can only be held responsible if they are given the possibility of gaftworlesungen or scientific activity at institutions etc. The provision of funds to temporarily secure the relocated university teachers and assistants was regulated by letters from the Reich Minister of Finance. Widows- The economic funds paid to teachers of higher education in Germany and their survivors are referred to the decrees of the Neichs-Serving of the Ministers of Finance and the Minister of the Reich of the Jnn from 20 January and 8 August 1940, which are treated in another place. In addition to the immediate measures for housing and ensuring the national university of Poznan, school teachers and assistants were prepared for the establishment of a new university in Poznań. The commissioner of the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter Wartheland and future curator of the university has the task of designing the new university in such a way that the entire political tasks in the East can be scientifically supported and supported to a considerable extent. A total of four faculties are planned for the university: a legal-economic, a philofophical-scientific, a medical and an agricultural. In addition to full legal training, the Faculty of Law and Business Administration provides for the education of the people's economy up to the diploma merchant, but not for the training of the diploma trade teacher. The Faculty of Agriculture is to be expanded. The necessary agricultural experimental goods for breeding, seed breeding, fruit and vegetable production, etc. For the University of Poznan special institutes are planned according to their special order, this is to be reported at a later date. The date of the opening of the university is not yet known, but this should take place at the earliest in April 1941.