GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 640, sig. 110-4/488 (damaged)

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English Translation

22a If the decision of the Secretary of State that the German School Associations should be transferred to the Cultural Association of Germans should be taken in such a way that the whole of the German school associations, in particular the basic assets directly devoted to the school (school buildings, gymnastics and play places) and the school inventory should be passed on to the German Cultural Association, the following should be noted in general: 1.) The transfer is not recommended first of all for the reasons mentioned in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 above. 2.) Apart from this, it should be noted that the division of the maintenance burden into the assets to be transferred to a private institution and the other school burden to be borne by the public institution constitutes a novum which has no role model in the rest of the Reich. 3.) One reason for making such a division cannot be cited. The idea that the assets belonging to a German school association could not be transferred well to the Protectorate or to another public legal body in the Protectorates would certainly have been correct for the time of the former Czechoslovak state, but it can no longer be decisive for today's state-law conditions. The Protectorate is a part of the German Reich and is under German supervision. Therefore, the Reich will always ensure that no abuse is carried out by the protectorate authorities with the assets of the former German school 8310. Therefore the school associations can today disappear. It is also not necessary to let them live in any form, for example in the Kulturverband der Deutschen (Kulturverband der deutschen (as asset bearer). 4.) In the meantime, the city of Prague has already taken over the German Women's School with all its assets belonging to the Prague German Womens Association. The German Women's School in Brno, which is part of the women's employment association in Brno and includes female teachers' training facilities for women' s occupations, is now under the strongest use of the