English Translation

t9V Der Dberlandrat Inspehtrur drs Beutfchen Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia Moravian-Dstrau, den_ 7 March 194 4. in Mähr.-Dstrau Meurs Rathaus Fenfprechet 23.45 r. Dr.Jo/Cy Geheim! Tgb.Nr.753/44g E bryarg. An der Herrn Deutschen Staatsminister für Böhmen und Mähren SS-Obergruppenführer K. H. F. r a n k in Preg. 11. MRZ. 1944 t7 Subject:Witkowitzer Werke. Annex : Original letter of the SD-leitungspart Prague dated 1 February 1944. A new development has occurred in the matter of the advisory board of the Witkowitzer Werke. On the occasion of the visit of the deputy Gaulei ter Neuburg to Moravia-Ostrava on 2 February 1944, at 2 p.m. 3.2.1944 spoke to Ge- neral Director Kuchinka and reported on the following: State Councillor Pleiger had proposed to the Reich Commissioner for the treatment of enemy assets, Secretary of State Krohn, as successor to Dr. Möhring, Berlin, in whose role as administrator of Witkowitzer Werke the board member of Hermann Göring- Werke, Guido Schmidt, proposed. Guido Schmidt is the well-known former foreign minister of the Dollfuss regime in Austria. The special importance of this new appointment would be that the new administrator would become a member of the executive board of the Witkowitzer union. Up to now, Director General Kuchinka is the only board member and Director General. After the flight of the Jewish director general of Witkowitz, Federer, a few days after the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia according to the provisions of the Czech Mountain Law, he was transferred to the Bergbuch as a leading member. Since that time Kuchinka has been the only legally authorized representative of the Witcowitzer Werke. According to the intention of the State Council Pleiger, Schmidt, who is the administrator and chairman of the advisory board of the Witkowitzer Werke, should not be sufficiently used, Kuchinke should be "burdened" insofar as he is also appointed to the board of management of the St.M.vM-43c/43