STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1296, sig. 109-4/1050

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00V Prague, 1 October 194l. Office of the S'ao ;k.i at the Re:o,p o.ek.o. in Bohemia and Märten. THE PRIMATOR-STELLVERTRETER Eing.: 2 Oct. 1941 THE MAIN CITY PRAG. Tgb. N... Activity report of the primator deputy of the capital Prague Prof. Dr.J.Pfitzner for the period from 1/8. to 30./9.194l. In the first place, our efforts to align Prague's urban conditions with those of the Old Reich were focused on the realization of all the comments and suggestions contained in the examination report of the Reich Ministry of the Interior. In constant agreement with the Lord's Council, a number of questions have been resolved which are already ready to be resolved, namely the attempt to propose a series of honorary and official advisers for full-time work. At the beginning of September, Mr. Oberlandrat made a corresponding submission to the Reichsprotektor and recommended in particular that the director Rudolf Richter, architect Rudolf Schicketanz and Dr. Walter Heller appointed full-time speakers and the negotiations on his possible entry into the city building council will be continued with the Stuttgart building director Dr.Ströbel. This has been requested to eliminate the magistrate's senate, which dates from the liberal-democratic period in its whole operation, since it still decides today after a majority and a minority, and more often happens that German applications for industrial affairs are rejected by the Czech majority of magistrats. This state of affairs is completely incompatible with the fact of the authority of the city and also damages national German interests. I would therefore very much welcome it if the removal of this magistrate and the transfer of his activity to the director of the political service, who then every week