GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 675, sig. 110-4/524

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31 The Reichsprotektor da b in Böhmeu and Moravia 29 Fernsprehenschilbsse: Prague 6014, 31945. 80es1, 8446. hsp.otek Nr. ta U aund mancen. It is requested to indicate this trade mark and the gagenstand with further letters. LaTG - 2. APR. 1943 Accounts of the Oberkasse: Postsparkassenkonto Nr. 98.500 and Girokonto with the National Bank of Bohemia and Moravia in Prague. ME forestmeister Pflanz. ata A4D #Srd LSS T present to the State Secretary by the Head of Department D30. M.i.40. Betr. . Reichsinstitut für Forstpflanzenzzuchtung und Baumrastern-forschung. NGJS Bozug of the State Secretariat on the basis of my oral lecture of 26.ds.lit. a Reichsinstituteş for forest plant breeding and construction research. It is planned to develop such an institute especially for the forest sector in the enlarged scale according to the type of plant breeding institute already in existence in Müncheberg, near Berlin, in which forest plant breeding and tree breed research will be encouraged for the future territory of the Cross German Empire. These breeding experiments will be of value mainly for the large afforestation plans in the eastern regions.In the eastern areas, approximately 800,000 to 1 million hectares will be afolded as far as the previous planning results are concerned. Mift, considering the sustainable supply of the German economy with the raw material wood, must be recognized as the founding of this Reichsinstitut ais wartime. The institute will be unique in the whole of Grossdeutsche area and will assume an excellent position in forestry in the field of forest plant breeding. The universities in Königsbøfggund Poseh and recently also the University of Hamburg are applying for the establishment of the Reich Institute. The leaders of Ostpreussen and the Wartgau have also agreed, if necessary, to use well-known funds for the initial establishment and also running sub-b.W./ $, S.5O14913 B.M.117