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

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Maa 19-1 - 18 - of the Oberlandrat as "eye, ear and extended arm" of the German tip, as "decentralized center". An upper district council, even if only with one leg, is no longer a "center point" and has only a very limited value for the management of the Protectorate, its real focus will inevitably slide downwards and shift to the leadership of the district authorities and its somewhat emphasized position through the title "Upper District Council", which is associated with the splendour of the previous days, will at the most work to ensure that the executive district heads receive a clear excess over the non-executive. Both developments are quite unremarkable and are by no means in the fundamental line taken by the administrative reform. The Staff Union between the Oberlandrat and the managing district head, who provide persons of the current Oberland Councils with more extensive (and not even equal !) employment, but finally bury the idea of the Oberlandsrats. 9.) The Staff of the Upper Land Councils. The Councils of the Oberland have no fear of too much intervention in specialist administrations, because the Upper Land Councils do not have their own authority or specialised officials, but rather the heads of the various departments in their field. For this reason, even in the event of a risk of delay, they will never issue technical instructions without a precise hearing from the competent department head of the relevant authority, as the State Minister does not regularly decide in technical terms without the presentation of his responsible department head. lo.)