STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, INV. 40, Sig. 109-1/45

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19a 2. Position of the Oberlandrats, in particular relation to the general inspector and occupation a) The Oberlandrets want the Obergruppenführer to continue to be subordinated, not the Landesvizepräsident. The entrustment of the state vice-presidents with tasks as Generalinspek- terns is essentially the means to establish the immediate way of command from the Reichsprotector to the two state authorities under the direction of the ministries and the state presidents. b) Below, the Oberlandrat supervises the district authorities and manages the right of instruction. The right of instruction must be determined in relation to the ministries and state authorities. It conveys what the head of the upper group pointed out in particular, in particular to the district authorities of the NsDAP, he wishes to the local authorities. Obergruppenführer wishes to make proposals for this. In order to enable the existing staff to fill all the district authorities with Germans, the Secretary of State pointed out in particular that, to the greatest extent possible, exposure to Śtelle of the previous full authority should be formed. German departments are not to be set up in the event of exposure, but only in the case of the remaining full authorities (between 60 and 7o). For the German departments, the current staff of the Oberlandrats is considered, unless aa) the Wehrmacht is deducted, bb) the 7 Oberlandräten is to be made available, ce) for the German divisions is needed at the regional authorities. Likewise, for the distribution of free personnel of the Office of the Reich Protector is eligible. The Obergruppenführer would like to see an overall distribution plan in the near future, from which the breakdown can be seen in detail. d) Future tasks of the Upper Land Councils The Higher Land Council should be a purely supervisory body, which moves around in the district and looks according to the right, all ongoing administrative work must therefore be transferred to the district authorities or, if they are not efficient, to the state authorities, in particular also nationality matters, spatial planning, Rv-related matters and air protection. The German Health Office is to be attached to a district authority. The Gendarmerie Commands are to be made available according to the model of the East of the Stapo (this Prague is not yet to be discussed with the Bdo for the time being). The Oberlandrat remains the head, not the processing, of the entire popular work (with corresponding middle forgiveness). It is not possible that the Council of Governors in current 06816 3.