STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1648, sig. 109-4/1403

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17 - 2 - the current staff budget proposal can be regarded as satisfactory, although it does not yet fully implement the parity principle at all levels. In order to prevent an endless abduction of the situation by the Czech Ministry of Education, it should be appropriate to provide this Ministry with a specific date for the implementation of the reduction in the number of persons. In detail, the following picture emerges, according to Dr. Reinhold of 26.8. I./ In the field of scientific forces (supervisors, councillors, commissioners and draftsmen), 31 Czech posts are currently facing 24 German posts in the National and University Library (NuB). There are 8 Czech and 6 German posts in the Library of Technical Universities (BTH). By dismissing part of the newly assigned Czech officials from the dissolved Czech authorities in 1939 (at the NUB a total of 9, at the BTH 5), parity between Germans and Czechs could be created. II./ In the area of middle officials on posts, there are currently 4 Germans in the NUB 15 Czechs. After the dismissal of the 10 newly added Czech officers in 1939 and the establishment of a new German post, the ratio would be 5 to 5. In the BTH 7 Czechs are currently opposite a German. After the release of the 4 Czechs who had been taken up in 1939, the balance of Czech and German officials would also be created here. III./ With the scientific assistants (Pauscha- - 3 -