English Translation

63 Security Service RF SD section Prague Prague, 4 January 1940. C VA:1673 To the Secretary of State at the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia, 44-group leader K.H. Fr an k, Prague. Betr.: Deutsche Bodenverkehrs-Genossenschaft. Vorg.: There.Schr.v.22.12.1939. Anlg.:1. The proposal for the replacement of the Executive Board and Supervisory Board of the Deutsche Bodenverkehrs-Genossenschaft (German Land Transport Cooperative) there offers it the guarantee that the necessary political line in this cooperative will be adhered to. However, it seems necessary, for technical reasons, to submit the proposal for membership of the Management Board to an end. It is not to be assumed that H e u s c h n e d is technically able to fill the post as a board unless he is accompanied by a politically equal but better-feeling man in banking matters. It is therefore necessary to replace H e l b i g - N e u p a u e r, which is to be regarded as a routine expert, with Heuschneider, and to add to the project a man who is skilled in the banking sector. For this reason, it was suggested here that the head of the state goods, Dr. S c h m i d t, the SD member and Director Deputy of an agricultural