GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 599, sig. 110-4/447

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TARE 20 1. 1945 g19/Reichskommissar WI a Berlin W 8, January 12, 1945 for the treatment of enemy assets Mauerstraße 43 Telex: 11 00 44 (Reichspräsident) II 721/296 Away: 11 65 16 163-166,170 z.Zt. (lo) Bad Schandau, Markt 21 It is requested to indicate this trade mark and the telex call: 397 subject matter in further letters Mlnlste-n Subject: Witkowitzer Bergbau- und Eisenhütten- Eng.: 15 JAN. 1945 Trade union in Moravian Ostrava. Jhr Sign: St.M. 563/437/44. The Federal Foreign Office, by letter of 3 December 1984 -R 19 645, stated that it was against the appointment of the Minister a.D. Dr. Guido Schmidt as the administrator of the trade union, and against an extension of the existing administration to the fact that the functions of the directorate of the union are entrusted to the former, had no reservations. Also the Minister of Finance, who first wrote from July 1 944 -4oo3 O/Pr. 987 V- also raised concerns, has now agreed to the appointment of Dr.Schmidt as administrator and to the extension of the administrative powers. Jch, since concerns were no longer raised by the other Reichsressorts, has applied to the Reich Minister of Justice, lawyer and notary Dr. Philipp Möhring in Berlin to appoint Minister Dr. Guido Schmidt in Berlin-Dahlem, Miquelstrasse 16, as the administrator of the trade union, on the condition that he is entitled to all judicial and extrajudicial transactions and legal acts involving the operation of the company. However, Jch had asked to restrict the powers of the administrator to (1) obtain my prior consent in all important matters, in particular in the n. 21 para. 2 and 4 of the General Order of the Minister of Justice of 2o.6.l94o, 2) to the ongoing management of business and operations, which the HGW. 3) To the German Minister of State for Bohemia and Moravia P_r_a_e $.M M- 3/45