THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 19, sig. 109-1/22

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9V n8 and is under the jurisdiction of the district authority as the first supervisory authority.Until l92g the city of Jglau had its own statute, as well as Oimütz and Brno and was therefore political authority I instance This statute was probably raised by the Czech government by a government decree of l929 for national political reasons, so that the city was much more exposed to the pressure of the Czech district authority. By the decree of the Reichsprotektor of June l939, the city council was dissolved and a government commissioner was appointed to whom all powers were transferred.The legal position of the government commissioner is a difficult one for German legal concepts.Politiseh is appointed by the Reich's protector, he is appointed under the law by the state authority, after which an organ of the protectorate was appointed. In this sense, the salary question is also regulated, it is not employed as a full-time employee, but receives an allowance from the municipality on behalf of the state authority. A discussion on the question of the representation of the government commissioner if he is ill, absent or in the exercise of official duties. The Commission's position is as follows: According to the current legal status, he does not have a representative who can make statements of a binding nature.All administrative matters must be subject to him, only the unimportant things are signed on behalf of the speaker. A stamp facsimile is also available, which has been handed over to a particularly trustable official, but little is needed in Jglau in the opposite to Olmütz.Just as there is no representation of the Regierungskommissär, there are also no advisory bodies. The government commissioner has helped this by using some of the party's personalities for voluntary cooperation and advice.This fact is very much to be welcomed,as there is a link between community leadership, party and population.Legally, this solution is countervailable,as it is not in any right. It is not a question of whether or not it is possible to make a distinction between the city and the city, and that is why it is not responsible, as is the case with respect to the secret service and so on. An important question for Jglau, which needs to be clarified soon, is that the police Jglu always had a municipal police on the basis of his statute.In l92s a stately police committee was set up, but the municipality kept the security police here for the year l929, whereby a law transferred all police powers to the state.At the same time, the municipality was obliged by this law,for 5 years to 318