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

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bv - 17 - their lively contact with the local relations could have been heard in the interministerial procedure in accordance with their position. Fornell is to derive this ongoing cooperation with the Oberlandraten without further from their anchoring at the top. It makes the Oberlandrats and their experiences more useful in practice than before for the overall management of the Pro- tektorat. 8.) Oberland Council and Managing District Chiefs. The question has often been raised as to whether it would be useful to give the Oberlandrats a "regulated" field of work again, that they are simultaneously appointed as police directors or heads of the managing district authorities in the personnel union, that is to say to turn the clock upside-down and restore the Oberlandsrat of old effluent in a new form, with its disadvantages, but without its advantages. This would not lead to any confusion in the powers and powers of command, but only to confusion. For example, the Oberlandrats could evade any order of the President of the State by referring to their status as Oberland Rat. On the other hand, the specialist administrations could try to evade the influence of the Oberlandrat inspector, for example, by recognizing him only in the title as the Oberlandsrat, but in reality only as the executive district captain, to whom they are not responsible for any particular matter. In addition to these practical consequences, however, such a view implies a complete recognition of the idea of the institution of the - 18 -