English Translation

- 7 - 12 departments also agree as far as possible with that of the speakers in the railway departments of the Reichsverkehrsministerium. As a special feature, the Ministry has for a long time for the central management of operation and transport a "operational centre" - which, as a central office of the railway operations administration, does not belong directly to the Ministry itself, but is directly under the responsibility of the General Director of the railways and has approximately the tasks of a general management of the Deutsche Reichsbahn; the Central Car Office of the BMB is attached to it. The responsibilities of the individual speakers and office administrators are clearly highlighted and demarcated by a business distribution plan and work distribution plan of the ministry. The business instruction also places the principle of independent individual decision by the speakers under their own responsibility in the foreground. The participation of other speakers interested in the matter and the participation of the Heads of Division and the Minister or Director-General shall be subject, mutatis mutandis, to the same guidelines as for the railway directives. These changes in the organization of the protectorate railways, which have been carried out so far, concern the establishment of their executive bodies and the completion of business tasks in these bodies. Despite the port steps achieved, however, the administrative process compared with the Deutsche Reichsbahn still suffers, in particular, from the fact that the BMB lacks the intermediate posts of the offices. It has always proved to be detrimental to the fact that the road from the railway directions to the external services responsible for local service is too long in order to ensure the strength of the whole railway administration as it is indispensable in the exceptional circumstances of the present day. On the other hand, in this situation, the railway directorates must inevitably, to an excessive extent, deal with matters of minor importance, which often only deal with local parts of the district.