GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 564, sig. 110-4/412

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91 - 10 - therefore closes with places of this kind of collective labour. In this way, conflicts of competence and friction are most likely to be avoided, which would otherwise be difficult to deal with, because society is not integrated into any state or vegetable organization apparatus. In addition, a considerable saving in time, persons and money is achieved in such a way that society was not least concerned with giving an example of how organizations can be an effective unit in planning and daily practice, under a clear appreciation of their mutual spheres of interest. For these reasons, the company has so far concluded agreements with the following organizations: 1.) Trade department and sub-department of wholesale, import and export trade of the Wirtschaftskaumer Vienna: The South-East Europe society was clear from the beginning that German trade was of particular importance in the context of economic relations between the Reich and the South-east. all the more so since the society has its seat in Vienna and thus in a city which, like few cities of the empire, exercises pronounced nittler functions and thus bears the typical face of a trading estate. The numerous events organised by the South-East Europe-Gesellschaft jointly with the Wirtschaftsgruppe Gross-, Ein- und Ausflüssungshandel Wien all served the purpose of bringing German and, in particular, Vienna's foreign trade into contact and economic relationship. In the light of this situation, considerable tangible economic successes have been achieved which relate to the organic and appropriate involvement of Viennese trade in the continental movement of goods, which is increasingly evolving and adapted to the objectives of the European Economic Area.