English Translation

Group Prague, 9 March 1942 Hydrogen and maritime transport III/3 No. A 522 yer traulic h. l.) Act e nvermerk Subject: Director General of the Czech-Mährische Schiffahrtsgesellschaft H a n á č e k In March 1942, Mr. Secretary of State to Prague, whether the current state of transition of the Bohemian Moravian shipping companies and the work to improve the performance of inland waterway transport, was allowed to remove the Director General H a n á č e k from his post in the short term, the following was presented by Mr. Head of Division III : The preparatory work for the participation of the Sudeten German Group in the Bohemia-Moravian Elbe Shipping A.G. With the exception of a few formal cases, the representatives of the group in the company's organs are elected and are already in office. However, the regulation within the Oder-Schiffahrtsgesellschaft has not yet been implemented. It is in the face of the resistance of the mining and iron and steel industry and, if necessary, must be forced by a change in a government regulation; considerable work is currently being done in the area of improving the performance of shipping. The volume of coal produced in the year 1994l on the waterways from Aussig to Prague is to be increased from 72,000 tonnes to 180,000 tonnes, i.e. by 150% and further lo0.0% of Hungarian bauxite on the waterways. Finally, the need to transfer a substantial proportion of the crews of the Bohemian-Moravian shipping companies to the Reich requires significant organizational changes in the company's operations. For the reasons mentioned above, it is desirable to postpone the withdrawal of H a n á e k s from his post by about 2 months. Until then it would be necessarily moglite, enog deutsta hom. N Leiler of the B.h. Wlbe Sh. 1. 2u finder. nse Barmn Kommat, a Therieht ./. 618/s