NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 573, sig. 110-4/421 Page 185 · 185 of 219
THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 573, sig. 110-4/421
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145 - 3 - Moravia have a dominant position. In Moravia-Ostrava there are now considerable concerns about whether or not Schmidt is the right man for this politically expenient area. Of course, the economic position he is considering would also have considerable petite weight. He is not a party member. His petite school is well known. These facts are neither offset by transmitted knowledge of the field of defence industry, nor by experience in the area of operation and human leadership under the conditions of the Bohemian-Mauritian region. As everywhere, the most important manifestation of the economy and administration in the Moravian-Oetrauer region is the increase in the production of arms and the maintenance of a political situation that secures the best use of Czech workers. The question now is whether it is appropriate, under the present conditions in the direction of the Witkowitzer Werke, a small enterprise of the armaments industry, to anticipate such gradual changes. Moreover, wide circles of the German party members would also take part in a discussion of Schmidt Aneteß. This is all the more so since the State Council Pleiger has already appointed a special commissioner in the person of an Ing. Barfuss, who was a member of Od Fellow at the time and only recently, after the Gauleitung had rejected him, became party comrade through a special act of grace. The work performance of the Czech workforce under the existing German leadership in Witkowitz is satisfactory. Decisive in all further measures must be the aspects of an increase in the compensation reduction. I therefore consider it necessary to draw your attention to this development and ask for your opinion to be communicated. If Schmidt vem's security police point of view is described as acceptable