STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 600, sig. 109-4347 (damaged)

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ot location in the Protectorate. In the narrow violation between Prague City and Prague Land, the existence of two different national authorities would bring serious consequences for both; at least a double treatment of all relevant issues and their discussion would be necessary without a factual justification for this condition, unless the city of Prague was entitled to be subject to its own Reich Authority. Precisely because all the major administrative tasks that the leadership of the city of Prague has to solve, touch the surrounding rural districts on the strongest, it seems imperative to place supervision in the hands of a rich-own authority, which is in the same way closely connected with the city as the country by its sphere of responsibility. II. Political side. 1.) The department of the Oberlandrat cannot be compared with that of the Landrat in the Reich, according to its entire task in the Protectorate, because it is both the lower and the middle administrative authority, with the focus on the activities of the Upper Landrat, especially in Prague. - in spite of the expansion that has been experienced in administrative operations and is still experiencing - similar to the government president's, the supervisory functions. In the Czech sector, therefore, not only the public and district authorities are subject to its supervision, but the Higher Regional Council in Prague has so far also exercised a certain supervisory right in relation to the Czech central banks. For example, the decision of the national authority to call for a lack of agreement between Primator and primator representatives is dependent on the agreement of the Oberlandrat. The removal of the city of Prague from the supervisory right of the Oberlandrat would therefore not have any underestimation of political effects, and would mean weakening the authority of the Upper Landrat vis-à-vis the Czech authorities.