STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 595, sig. 109-4/342

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9 Security Service RFSS Prague, 18 Septembor 1939 Central Office for Bohemia and Moravia C f19/9 To the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia e.g. Mr. State Secretary SS-Brigadeführer K.H. Frank, Prague. Betr.: Reichskommissar für das Olsagebiet. Vorg.: Excluding. The following report is not sent unnoticed: On behalf of the General Field Marshal, ministerial conductors G a b e 1 and President K e h r 1 Bergdirektor Dr. L i 1 1'ig appointed Reichskonmissar for the Olsa area. Up to now, Bergdirektor Lillig worked in Salzgitter at the Reichswerke Hermann-Göring and was on leave from there for the new task. Dr. LillIG was appointed as Commissioner to combine the mining and ironworks operations of the Olsa area economically uniformly. A discussion took place on 9.9.39, in which, apart from Dr. Lillig, a Mr. W al t e r from the Reichswirtschaftsministerium and Landrat B i 1 k e took part. The most important tasks of the next period were discussed. In addition, in the long term, preparatory work will be carried out with the aim of a generous expansion of the entire industrial area. Among other things, 2 oo0 mine workers and mining workers from the Saar region will be employed. $\8$