STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 444, sig. 109-4/189 (damaged)

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12 - 5 - Representatives of the organization in the municipalities and districts (the farmers and the delegates) do not elect, but after verification by the SD and the Oberlandrats to be appointed by the regional cultural councils. 2. The establishment of full-time district councils in the Oberlandrat districts is in line with the proposal at that time to set up an outpost of the Landeskulturrats at the seat of an Oberland Council. 3. Against the creation of a national association - is probably an association, which should be responsible for the whole protectorate - I have great concerns. Since this association should be entrusted with the essential tasks of the Reichsnährstand, there would be a risk that the Landesverband and its substructure would develop a food-like organization and a protectorate-building leader from outside the elected Landobmann. Jch assumes that a civil servant's apparatus will be built up in the Landesverband, because the extensive tasks incumbent on the Landesbund cannot be performed by honorary farmers' leaders alone. But even if the appointment of full-time officials were to be waived, the creation of the national federation of any - if during the war a great danger to the food situation in Protectorate is connected. Since the national association is not to be subordinated to the Ministry of Agriculture, he could supervise the instructions of the Reich Protector: po