English Translation

y-9c Coer cnm c prr 13 Let us call ourselves, referring to the detailed presentation of Spanner in general, first briefly to the memory, what cha- racterizes this immediate Reichsgaue in comparison with the other two Typen, the Prussian provinces and the extra-Prussian countries. With the Prussian provinces, the immediate Reichsgaue are in agreement in their internal structure insofar as they are at the same time state administrative districts and self-governing authorities, namely those with a wide-ranging administrative task, which is not limited by any enumeration, with the top management of the general state administration and the general government administration. As in the Prussian provinces of the head of state by the governor of the state, a Gauhauptmann is constantly represented in the immediate Reichsgauen of the imperial governors in the ongoing business of the self-government and, as in the provinces of Prussia, so in the direct Reichs Gauraten, which of the Appointed deputy of the leader, admitted as adviser in the leadership of self-government. On the other hand, their position is more similar to that of the extra-Prussian countries in that they are like these without the intermediate stage of a higher territorial unity and without an intermediate instance, as it is between the Prussian provinces and the Reich or the Kingdom. the Supreme President and the Reich Government — are these even more a "paper-thin wall" to repeat a word often used in the old Austria — nevertheless exist, to which the Reich is incorporated and subordinated to the Reich government. Both of the Prussian provinces and of the extra-Prussian countries they are subordinated by the fact that the foundation of the unity of the administration is carried out to a greater extent, albeit not with all, to the same extent, that the imperial governor standing at the Spite also directly subordinates part of the Reich special administrative authorities and to the other one over the influence rights of the Imperial governor in the Old Reich, or In the case of the head of the administration of the special administrative authority in question, he shall be represented in its management by the Head of Administration of the Special Administrative Authority in question. The Reichsstatthalter in the immediate Reichsgauen thus unites those powers which in the extra-Prussian countries belong to the Reichsstathalter, in the Prussian provinces at least partly to the Supreme President, with the powers of the governments in the