STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2409, sig. 109-12/54

Page 14

English Translation

07 employment management and advisory services were initially appointed seven advisory councils: 1. the Landerkulturwalter, 2. the Head of the Department of Culture and Community Care of the Reichs Governor - Gauselverwaltung -, 3. the Deutsche Gemeindetag, Hauptstelleführer für Kultur, 4. the Gauobmann of the DAF, 5. the President of the Economic Chamber of Sudetenland, 6. the director of the Kunsthalle in Reichenberg, 7. the director at the Reichsgau Museum Troppau. The head of the Gauamt Dr. Portele then set up a provisional budget for the treasurer, which as essential expenditures the amounts for the six large art orders, the purchase sum for the house in Hammer a. See and an amount for the establishment and installation of the Künstlerheim in Reichenberg. The cash register of RM 71,400,- and the expected dedications and annual contributions make the expenditure draft seem justly finished. After this report, which was received with approval, the Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter closed the founding meeting of the Kunstverein at 9.30 p.m. He thanked all the published ones and asked them, now in a comradely meeting, also the special task of the art association on Reichenberger Boden