English Translation

158a Schmidt admitted that the Reichskommissar for the enemy fortune, Secretary of State Krohn, had legal concerns, Schmidt, the managing board member of Hermann Göring-Werke (Montan-Block ), was to make simultaneously the administrator of Witkowitz, since Hermann Gö Ring-Werske (montan-block ) were already operating leaders according to the business transfer agreement of Witzkowitz. State Secretary Krohn considers this summary to be impracticable in one person.These concerns of the state secretary Krohn want Pleiger to avoid by transferring the Hermann Göring-Werke (Montan-Block ) their rights from the business transfer agreement back to Hermann-Göring-Were (Watenstedt), which would legally enable Schmidt to perform the administrative function. ( Schmidt himself admitted that such a justification is not to be taken seriously.) State Secretary Krohn intended to visit the Minister of State in Prague after Easter to discuss the matter with him. As long as the promise of the Minister of State was not available, a final appeal of the Schmidt to the administrator of Witkowitz and thus to the chairman of the Peirat was not intended.Schmidt could therefore not carry out his business as administrator for so long. Schmidt also reported that Dr. Rasche had been sharply reproved by the State Councillor Pleiger. State Councillor Pleiger had broken off all relations with Rasche and demanded his dismissal from the advisory board of the Witkowitzer Werke. Schmidt's submissions must be commented on here. For political reasons, the activities of the former Minister of the Schuschnigg government, Guido Schmidt, whose intellectual qualities and abilities cannot be doubted, appear to be unwelcome in this scarceness. At a place as important as the eastern Moravian territory on the border of the empire to :0233 Slovakia