English Translation

53-3 As a result of this attitude of the Oberlandrat Fiechtner, the government commissioner Dr. Engelmann has not yet been able to solve the problem of road renamings. The Iglau population, as far as the members of the Upper Landrat became known, is very surprised at the behaviour of the Fiechtner. Engelmann is typically characterized by the fact that Fiechtner informed Dr. Engelmann by telephone on 29.12.39 that, at the request of the Reichsprotector, a financial revision should take place at the municipality in Iglau. Fiebhtner asked Dr. Angelmann to agree and also to wish for this. He would need the written reply of the Reg. Commissioner within half an hour. Engelmann with his commissioner for municipal finances, C e r v e n k a, who had told the Oberlandrat that not everything was in order with the congregation, Engelmann came to the assumption that the Superior Council had only planned this revision in order to find any new moments to be able to take a position against him. On January 9, 1940, Engelmann received a letter from the Oberlandrat Fiechtner, stating that a written order from the Reichsprotector for the revision - which Dr. Engelmann had previously asked for - was "exhaustive at the present state of affairs", since the government commissioner himself would have wanted a revision in writing. Dr. Engelmann saw in this action of the Oberlandrat a pronounced overlap. In December 1939, Oberlandrat Fiechtner let the head of the district press office and editor of the local newspaper "Mährischer Grenzbote", Rippl , come to him and rejected him in sharp form because he had brought the publication about the confirmation and appointment of Fiechtner to the Oberland Rat under the column "Local and Provincial News". Fiechtner took the view that this -4--