STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1649, sig. 109-4/1404

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5 1a of its staff then soon the German Technical University, especially after the foundation of the independent Czech state after the year 19l8. According to today's uniform division, the Czech Technical University would include 6 full faculties, including, as already mentioned, a Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, then a Faculty for Commercial Sciences and a Faculty in Mountain and Metallurgical Engineering. Outside, further study opportunities such as insurance technology and surveying. The number of professors is lz0 ordinary and l4 extraordinary, i.e. in total l44. On the other hand, before the liberation of the g detenland dèé Deutsche Technische Hochschule, there were 47 ordinary and completely extraordinary, 58 chairs, whereas today it has only 37 ordinary and 7 extraordinary, in other words only 44 chairs, i.e. by full 1 4 chairs less than in the Czech period. It is obvious that the German Technical University can no longer have the validity and significance of this small amount, even with the willingness of the professors and lecturers ån teaching and research to the Czech Republic, and that its present level of expansion corresponds even less to the increased influence and the cultural will of the Reich in this area. The situation here is very different from that of a university in the Altreichgebiet. The traditional development and the constant competition led to the fact that the extent and the equipment of the university form an essential cultural evaluation and validity scale. The German Technical University must therefore already 38179