STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 270, sig. 109-4/12 Page 24 · 24 of 26
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 270, sig. 109-4/12
English Translation
57 - 23 - that the city of Leipnik garrison place remains the Czech government troupe; rather, by a transfer of the Holleschau police battalion also must be given back to the town of Leipnik by a German force, as Moravian Weißkirchen owns it through his German garrisons - there is an infantry battallion there. In the same way, the plans of the Oberlandrat in Olomouc must be supported, which aim to bring a German forest academy to Moravian White Churches. If in this way the cities will be strengthened as centres of the border area voælkstumsmäßig, it will also be possible to gain again the flat land of the district Moravian White Churches, which was once strongly interspersed with Germans, but today is purely Czech, to German activity. In 1890 in that district the number of Germans in the country has fallen quite considerably. The possessions of Count Podstatsky in Veselicko (2300 ha) and Count Althan in Leipnik (4800 ha) are located on German land in the Moravian Weißkirchen district. Both possessions have lost considerable parts due to the land reform, the Count Althan alone 3900 ha, of which 2900 ha are parceled, over 100 ha are nationalized, Here too, as in the Jglau area of interest, one will have to examine to what extent this once German property is reclaimed and can be used for settlement purposes. The five areas of interest briefly sketched out in the above-mentioned remarks have each their special character and therefore also require in the folk work a completely individual and their peculiarity taking into account kind of work. The establishment of a scheme for all these areas with regard to the means of German-speaking work to be applied would in no way lead to useful results. First of all, it will be crucial that the German ethnicity settled in Moravia, as the authoritative carrier of every