English Translation

- 2 - In recognition of this inadequacy and in order to eliminate the sole domination of the bureaucracy, aid has been sought through special assignments for special questions. The special contracts in the administration of the Great German Empire, which can hardly be overlooked anymore, are an example that speaks for itself, but the desired success was achieved in part, but only under in-buy-neighbourly large new disadvantages. Although it was possible to increase the work performance of individual subject areas in themselves, most of them had to be reared for this purpose by new own organisations, public authorities and civil servants who, as independent organisations, also created a new bureaucracy and thus did not solve the problem, but only deepened it in the end. A further consequence is the inevitable overlap of responsibilities with the previous established administrative apparatuses and thus disproportionately high "friction losses". The final effect is a co-existence, confusion and conflicting work of individual governmental organisations, which, almost without any contact with each other, recognise only their own sector as vital and completely ignore the interests of other areas, which are sometimes equally important or perhaps even more important for the whole. With this end, centralism itself has already led to absurdity; for it originally aimed at the uniform orientation of the entire administration according to completely uniform directives and increasing the impact of the whole administration of all disciplines throughout the whole area, but has indeed led to the opposite, namely to a not yet present juxtaposition and a lack of unity. - 3 -