STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1101, sig. 109-4855

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/// - 2 - and should serve as a scale for the future increase. This starting point is not appropriate. The aim of the compensation allowance was to ensure that the German staff in the autonomous administration at the same time, before the reform of the autonomous remuneration law, which was still in a wider view at that time, were able to maintain Germanism in the protectorate administration. The comparative levels of the Reich's salary are deliberately very low in order not to prejudge the final technical and political evaluation of the civil servants by the state and the party in the event of a later transfer of those servants into the Reich official ratio. The extremely low level of the protectorate grade has naturally facilitated such a devaluation of the Protectorate staff. This system, which has been introduced from a very specific point of view for a small sector of civil servants, which is already subject to considerable objections in its current scope, cannot be used for a general solution, albeit provisional, to the urgent salary problem of the protectorate staff. In particular, the consideration that a transfer into the Reich official relationship should not be pre-empted, with regard to the possibility of exchange with officials of the rest of the Reich area, must be ensured. The financial inhibitions which exist when the compensatory allowance is granted are also eliminated, since the salary of the protectorate is not granted from Reich funds, unlike the compensation allowance. The critical effects of the compensation allowance system are illustrated first by a few examples: a) An upper section council, which only achieves this position after completion of the stages of the ministerial superior and sectional council, and at the earliest in a 40-year age, is placed on a level in the compensatory allowance scheme with an average of 29 years of government council at the beginning of the higher service. In addition, according to the proposal of Head of Department I, it is to be covered by a 10% deduction from the salary of the Governing Council.