English Translation

Copy. I/1 a-Haush. 2132/43 Prague, 14th Augsut 1943 Herr Min.Rat Dr. G i e s on the service way back with the following statement. As Mr. Landforstmeister Pflanz informed me, the request of the Reich's forest master to give the Reichsprotector a grant for the construction costs of the Imperial Institute is due to the fact that the leaders of Dstpreußen respectively. In the case of the transfer of funds from the Warthegau to its area, these grants would have been paid by the Gauleiters from the funds of the Gaue (self-governing authorities) and thus the Reich would have arisen, if the grant of the Reichsprotector were to be a means of wealth. A grant from Reichsmittel - be it the Volkstumsfond, be it other means - to one already from the Reich at another place (in the budget of the Reichsforstamt). the last paragraph of the letter of the Reichsforstmeister of 29.3.1943) financed Reichsinstitut is however not possible according to § 43 Reich budget regulations, since for a similar purpose funds may not be spent in different places of the rich budget. However, since it is financially indifferent for the Reich to which part of the budget of Peträge is spent, the Reich Minister of Finance should possibly make available the necessary funds for the Imperial Institute in the budget for the imperial forest office at the request of the Reich.Rßs might recommend that, in order to support the Reichsforstmeister, the Imperial Minister of finance should consider in a special letter from the Reich Protector that special, also popular-political aspects would have made the transfer of the Imperial institute to Prague (connection to the German Charles University) desirable. For the purposes of this Article, the following definitions shall apply: