STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2097, sig. 109-7/104

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It is proposed that all aged and entitled civil servants be retired. 6./ Those former German followers, who were gradually dismissed during the system time and were re-acquired today, have been classified with the same salaries that they szt regardless of Burchweg's changed circumstances. In the meantime, their Czech colleagues, albeit more technically middle-class, have had a career. In this context, reference is made in particular to the two Czech smiths Jaroslav L in d a (6l6l) with an annual reference of 34.000.-- K and Jan Sajdl (2628), who are preferred in every respect, but the two German smithy masters whose abilities are at least equivalent to the pre-mentioned Czechs must be satisfied with a yearly reference of K 27.0o0.-. The two German masters are Franz Hechtberger(5l92) and Karl Zitzmann,(5382). 7./ In particular, it is pointed out that the newly formed German workers were assigned to the protection of the work and the collection of the army in the overwhelming majority of cases, so that they are actually only directly employed in the work itself. As a consequence of these conditions, it emerges: a./ The Czechs do not feel hindered in their German-enemy efforts and their negative attitude to the new political situation in the Protectorate will cause them, under the given conditions, to damage the kingdom by sabotage and betray it, just as in the old Austria, once the favorable moment appears to them. b./ Bie nerren inglLöhrl, Rödling and Miderla, who were given the task of monitoring the plant as an armaments company in the interests of the Keiches and to protect the Germans, are not heard by the superiors for their complaints and have no means themselves to effectively enforce the necessary measures. It is therefore not possible for them to free the German elenent from the pressure exerted by the Czechs. It is also due to these circumstances that very few of the people who have been lost to the cschechtum gisher were known as Germans, but on the contrary, they have registered as members of the Narodni sourucenství. b./ The Czechs see evidence in these contexts, for the correctness of their presuppositions are strengthened in their belief in the return of old political conditions.