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

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102 3.sheet on the work report of the primator deputy for the period from 1/8. to 30./9.1941. THE PRIMATOR-STELL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MAIN CITY PRAG. Simplicity, transparency and consistency is considerably superior. Above all, the completely unfounded division of the city administration into units and units, which has already caused much confusion. A major question will remain as to which position the Magistrate services will take in the future. First reviews showed that within the ten subject areas, which are so far looked after in the fully developed Magistras departments, there are some which can come to an end as they are usefully carried out by the central administration. I am thinking first of all of the financial matters, the registrar offices and the trade departments. Already in the course of an extensive investigation it was found that in the area of the tax office, the merger with the hundred employees and civil servants should become superfluous. As soon as I see quite clearly in this area, I want to submit the relevant amendments. In the area of the Prague municipal constitution, under the l6./9.l94l, an unexpected advance was made on the part of the provincial vice-president of Bohemia Schubert, who in four letters dated l6.9.l941, arrived at me on 22./9 and addressed to me, made demands that the Prague city administration should be closely linked to his person. Since this demand is in open conflict with the provisions of the current Prague municipal statute, which clearly regulates the relationship with the state office as supervisory authority, and since the cooperation between the municipality and the state authority has been smooth, I handed over these letters to the latter on request of the Oberlandrat with the request to continue to bring about the necessary clarification in an appropriate form and to try to reconcile the administrative organization rather than to complicate it further by involving new intermediate bodies. I had to point out on this occasion that: