English Translation

+ - 2 - Legal basis for the economic management of the protectorate railways. It created a new body for the management of the "undertaking" with the Administrative College, which was formed by the Railway Ministry (since December 1938 "Ministry of Transport"), consisting of 12 members (including a representative of the Ministry of Finance) 1 and had to decide on all matters relating to the supervising of the company, provided that they were not expressly reserved by the law or the general organizational standard either for the government or for the Minister of Transport itself. Moreover, these legal provisions did not affect the internal structure and structure of the railway administration. The Ministry of Railways only carried out a redefinition of the responsibilities of the Railway Directorates and the lower departments in the handling of business tasks by decrees of 10.9.1931 and 7.6.1938, extending the scope of the central and sub-bodies and thus simplifying, albeit modestly, the management of the service and making it more economical. It was the peculiarity of this administrative structure that it gave relatively little room for manoeuvre to the self-employed self-responsible activity of each staff member. First of all, the responsibilities of the middle and lower bodies for the material execution of business tasks - especially in comparison with the Deutsche Reichsbahn - were very much limited in favour of the ministry, in such a way that the central authority had either to decide at all or that its consent was maintained. On the other hand, the division of the railway directives into groups and departments and the ministry into divisions and sections inevitably resulted in a cumbersomeness and anonymity of the administrative work, because the individual measures were at most the group, department or section involved, but not the actual staff member. In continuation of this idea, the decision of all the more important matters had finally been taken by the 12-member administrative college, which had its 1)The other members were the section heads of the 8 Pachektionen and 2 departmental boards of the Ministry of Transport, and a non-official "specialist".The administrative college therefore had a predominantly official character, it was a board of senior officials of the railway administration.