STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 270, sig. 109-4/12

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04 - 20 - Hradish 71/2%, in Göding even 47%. These substantial positions have been largely lost. Thus there is a reason to strive for their recovery with increased use, while also taking care to completely reduce the Czech influence in both cities in favour of the Slovak as far as possible. Special emphasis will be placed on the promotion of the school system. Even in Ung. Hradisch, a German grammar school existed before 1918, which had a very good reputation. It will be a particularly grateful task of the future in the given time and to make it the spiritual center of the border area there. In the same way, the Slovak school system will have to be promoted through the recruitment of Slovak teachers, etc. The beginnings of a new German school system are laid in both cities; in Hungarian, there is a school with 2 classes and at present 46 pupils, in Göding, a school of 3 classes, 4 teachers and 102 children. For both cities one will also have to think of finding suitable new mayors or government commissioners at the given time, for Göding a German mayor, for Ung.Hradisch most expedient a mayor of Slovakian descent, which would have the special task of bringing the Germanism and the Slcwakentum into a lively connection. In both cities special attention will also have to be paid to the selection of suitable district heads. The popular work in both cities'durah is supported the German garrisons. In Ung.Hradisch there is a national protective battalion, in Göding an infantry battalions. In connection with this, femner deserves mention that there are large properties in the vicinity of the two cities in German hands. Göding owns a directorate of the protectorate forest and property. The share of the state property around Göding herun, which is under German administration, is 6700 ha (of which 6420 ha forest). The little klm east of Göding located place Strassnitz, in which in 1910 142 Germans were still resident, _i.st_