English Translation

160 The share ownership of E.v.Nikelai and Waffenwerke Brünn A.G. as German possessions, shows that the German and Czech groups each have a 50 % stake in the syndicate. Also, this arrangement was only produced by my pressure, since a syndicate did not exist before and the Živno bank had the majority. To compensate for this, it has cast a number of votes to Brünn Waffem. On the basis of this rule, the organs of the company were re- filled: a/ the board of directors with 7 Germans and 8 Czechs, b/ the decisive executive committee with 3 German and 2 Czechs and thus with a German majority. 3./ It is now necessary to refrain from bringing the Ferdinands Nordbahn into the hands of at least an effective German majority of shares. 4./ To this end, I had submitted the following Vørschlag: The weapon factories Brno A.G. are the owners of a coalfield located in the protectorate and Olsa area, the shafts Eugene and Alpine and the so-called Hertzmanitzer Grubenfeldes. /In the attached plan green./ Rs protrudes with the necessary parts into the protectorate area hminein. The Brno Arms Works A.G. have this possession by the former Czechoslovak state with contract