GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 579, sig. 110-4/427

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The Minister of the Reich Berlin, the 2nd Mar 1944 for Armor and War Production ZA/Org. ....... Jn 1.) For the purpose of summarizing my services in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, I appoint Major General Dipl.Ing. H e r n e k a m p, under leave in his position as Chairman of the Arms Commission, to my Commissioner for Bohemia and the Moravian Republic. 2.) The "Commissioner of the Reichsministerium Speer für Böhmen und Mähren" represents me within the Protectorate in carrying out all tasks which are not only technical and political. 3.) My services are under the responsibility of the Central Authority in Bohemia and Kähren, at present the Arms Inspection, the Military Officer, the Armaments Officer, and the Construction Officer, mechanical reporting. To the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour, to the extent that it carries out the duties of a Regional Economic Office and a Regional Labour Office, it has the powers arising from its position as chairman of the Arms Commission in accordance with my decree of 29.10.1943 on the division of tasks in the Ariegswirtschaft. 4.) The representative shall be responsible for a uniform orientation of the various departments in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. He shall report on all not purely technical matters; he shall use the departments of the central authority responsible for the reporting to date in an appropriate manner.