English Translation

69V Security Service of the Reichsführer-4f Prag-Bubentsch, 18.2.1944 SD-Head Section Prague Sachsenweg Telephone 774-44 III D - V 83 25 FEB. 1944 To the German Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia i-ObergruppenführER K.H. Fr a n k Prag 7761 Betr.: Appointment of a new trustee of the Imperial Commissioner for Enemy Assets to the Witkowitzer Mining and I Ironworks Union. Vorg.: Without. For reasons of the strong use of the chairman of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring, Pleiger, and the general director Kuchinka of the Witkowitzer Eisen-Werke, a constant contact of these two became increasingly difficult and has already led to unpleasant incidents. Pleiger has therefore ordered that a special person be appointed to the board of Hermann Göring Werke to deal with and regulate all matters of Witkowitz. Pleiger's former Austrian Foreign Minister, Dr. Guido Schmidt, has been appointed to this position and has already been incorporated into the Board of Management of HGw. At the same time, the plan has emerged to replace the former trustee of the Reich Commissioner for Enemy Assets at the Witkowitz Mining and Ironworks Union, Möhring, with Dr.Schmidt in order to establish the personal union in the two leading positions. According to statements by the director-general Kuchinka, the Reichskommissar for the enemy's assets has already given its consent in principle, but the final undertaking is conditional on the request to Pleiger that he withdraw a letter addressed to Kuchinca at that time. This letter contained an order to Kuchinka, which clearly forbade the trustee Möhring to send reports on the ironworks. Möhringer had to request such reports exclusively on the Hww, Berlin. This request is all the easier to fulfil, as Dr. Schmidt is the man on the board of the HGW anyway, who represents the whole of Witkowitzer 7 interests and is also to be appointed trustee for Witcowitz. Dr, Schmidt is supposed to have raised concerns about his appointment, but he did not let them go to a consultation with Kuchinka. As Kuchinki said to himself, he assumes that a final appointment Dr. Schmidt's about the trustee of the Witkowitz mining and ironworks union nothing stands in the way anymore. In this connection it should be mentioned that the trustee Möhring received a monthly compensation of 40,000 K from the ironworks Witkouwitz, although he was present only once a month in Moravian-Ostrava for a short time. The amount of the compensation was prescribed by Berlin. Aaahi 141 M-7^{b/43