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UAEE0 33 In Bohemia and Moravia Abbot V/4 Fersiwirtschaft Der Reichsforstmeister/4.240/3B -SAPR.1943 Berlin W 8, the 29. March 1943 Leipziger Platz 11 Fernruf: Orts- und Vororiverkehr: Sammlungnummer 1200 49 Zeichen: P 261.01-16 EINGEGANGEN In the case of reply letters, please indicate the above sign 3.APR.1943V (03775 Herr 41 Reichsprotektor The Reichs protaktor in Bohemia and Moravia HAFrame and Mahren Prag. Subject: Establishment of a Reichsinstitut für Forstpflanzenztüchtung und Baumrasternforschung. For several years, I have been planning to set up a large Imperial Institute for the breeding of forest plants and the exploration of tree breeds. The example of agriculture science, which has achieved great success in recent decades through breeding research and which has been able to increase the benefits for people's nutrition to an unprecedented extent, makes a similar approach urgently necessary and comprehensive in forestry areas. Both for the great task of increasing the production of the wood today to be described as a key raw material within the German forests, in which much more has to be beaten than is growing for eight years, and for the extensive afforestation tasks in the east, the forestry plant breeding is of the greatest importance. Breeding of rapidly growing wood species and tree breeds, especially for pulp industry, crossbreeding and multiplication of yielding breeds as well as increasing by vegetative means, require systematic and comprehensive scientific work, which generally requires a longer start-up time in the long-term of forest production, but also in detail in a short time, e.g. In the field of poplar breeding, which can and will lead to very considerable successes in terms of the economy, the work and the establishment of such an institute must therefore also be recognized during the war as important and urgent. Unfortunately, the war conditions have prevented the foundation of the institute, which was initially planned in the Old Reich, so far, since the necessary spaces are not available in the places that the institute can offer and the construction of a new building is now and in the foreseeable future completely impossible. From these founders, while Göttingen was intended as a place for the establishment of the institute, the focus has recently been on Prague, alongside Hamburg and Poznan, since there still seems to be the most prospect of maintaining the necessary buildings and cultivation areas for the institute. The forestry, plant geography and transport aspects, which make Prague appear to be particularly favourable, also include reasons for popular politics and similarism.