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

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- 2 - The exemption of the Oberlandrats from administrative work and the formation of German departments in the autonomous administration allowed for a considerable increase in the Oberlandsrat districts and their corresponding reorganization. The autonomous district authorities had already been merged, so that with an average population of 80 000 inhabitants they correspond to the importance and the size of a German district. The following Oberlandrat districts (the corresponding district authorities please refer to the annex): Prague: 18 district authorities with about 1 442 000 inhabitants. The city of Prague no longer belongs to the Oberlandrat area, but is directly under the imperial supervision of the Reichsprotektor. Königgrätz: 13 district authorities with approx. 1 l52 O00 inhabitants. Pilsen: 7 district authorities and the city Pilsen with approx.693 000 inhabitants, provided with its own statute (according to German language usage) with about 693 000 residents. Budweis: 6 district authorities containing approx. 533 000 inhabitants. Brno: 8 district authorities and the town of Brno with its own statute, together with about 1 164 000 inhabitants, Moravia: 9 district authorities, and the towns of Moravia, Ostrava and Olomouc with a population of about 995 000. Iglau: 6 district authorities with a inhabitants of about 4l8 000. The Upper Land Councils (inspectors of the Reich Protector) are still the directly under the Reichsprotektor, as its extended poor acting Reich authorities, the independent of the administrative structure and the injunction of the autonomous administration as bearer of the Imperial Supervision the general, they according to the Aufbauordnung of 1 September l939 (RGBl. I p. (l68l) to exercise powers (right of information, instruction and instruction) over the Reich services and services of the Protectorate and to act freely from formal ties to the autonomous management system through their permanent active influence and in cooperation with the German officials appointed in the autonomous administration themselves in such a way that the autonomous administrative administration must: