STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 26, sig. 109-1/29

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VV - 9 - Determining the frequency of individual administrative bodies or concrete administrative operations. If a simple citizen has to go to eight different places to deal with a simple matter and has not yet been discharged, the Oberlandrat will rightly derive from it the existence of a basic misconduct and will have to provide in appropriate form for concrete remedy or fundamental improvement. Similarly, it will almost never experience decisions contrary to common sense or political mis-decisions of an authority through study of the internal administrative enterprise, but only through living contact with the population concerned by such decisions. Likewise, if e.g. In the case of a company, there are situations of maladministration which have been attempted by the competent authority in the normal course of service, but which have not been resolved or which are too slow and bureaucratic. From such things the Oberlandrat can only gain knowledge by living contact with the population, against, with the relevant information channels and must strive through its authority and its "unbureaucratic" working method to achieve not only the completion of the process, but the actual remedy of the deficiency. His position and his direction of view is therefore deliberately not that of a head of authority or administrative body, but is to some extent a "counter-pole". The administration and the administrative organism from within is, without that, already enough, sometimes too much and controlled by too different positions. "Con- troll of control" carried out in excess causes more damage than benefit and only creates new bureaucracy again. Finally, it is based on the principle of distrust of all and thus leads to misunderstanding, decision-making displeasure, avoidance and expulsion - lo -