English Translation

SD hamgatieo: fr prm M 24.NOV 1943 Subject: Oberlandraten-Inspektiveure des Deutschen Staatsministers, Section A) boad 1 7U I d e e. 16075 2 5. XI. 1943 Uen ERONOSHPNU 1.) Definition. //I . The Oberlanderrats are - brought to the shortest formula - their nature and their idea according to the "decentralized center". 2.) Centralism and bureaucracy. The downside and the previously unresolved problem of the guiding principle in administration is centralism, with its excesses. By the fact that an individual personality is responsible for everything (e.g. for everything in one field), there is a referral of the individual personality with an inhumane abundance of detail questions, which is to be solved or even overlooked a single person physically unable at all. The greater the factual or spatial scope of this individual personality is, the more confusing the work to be led by it becomes. The actual focus then increasingly shifts from the individual personality itself to an "organization" or a "authority apparatus", in other words to the "bureaucracy" bureaucracy and centra- lism are two inseparably connected terms. Bureaucracy and centralism are the previously unresolved problem of the guiding principle in administration, or, better expressed: the "technique" of the leading principle. In - 2 - 9019 St.M.IA-32a/42