English Translation

X copy. GROUP ECONOMY Prague, 15 August 1940. 2 Senate No.: II/l Jd. - 26983/40. do gemateme - -deretaU b nrived me gagifteted bn nodoltebrd nov dew Note: me eee Subject: Dejudication of the Portland cement factory Leo CZECH & Co., Malomeritz near Brno. In order to take over the Malomeritzer cement factory, the PERL- MOOSER ZEMENTWERKE A.G.,VIEN,And the STRAMBERG WITZOWITZER ZEMENTWEERKE a.G,MÄHR.-OSTRAU, come into question. GEL BTACe t For the Perlmooser cement works, in particular, the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter Niederdonau with EE letter of 1 July l940 was engaged. On the other hand, the Minister for Economic Affairs of the Reichs-VUSEON is in particular in favour of the takeover of the Jewish company by the Stramberg-Witkowitz cement works. On the instructions of the Secretary of State, the dejudgment has not yet been decided, since the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Niederdonau still offered a final decision of the Minister of Armament and Ammunition T o d t, which has not been received so far. On the matter itself, all the preparations for the immediate takeover of the company have been made, and the Secretary of State has approved the dismissal in such a way that 5 % of the public limited company to be set up will be taken over by Brno industrialists under the leadership of the Kreditanstalt der Deutschen, while 49% will be transferred to one of the two applicant companies. The German credit institution has almost completed the negotiations with the Brno industrialists and the results of the audit of the value of the company will be available in no later than 10 days.