English Translation

Ab t eilung III Prague, 7 December 1944 III/1 - R 5015/44 T -8.Dez 1944 Herrn 68 Dr. G i e s im Hause. Betr.: Statute of the Reinhard-Heydrich-Stiftung. The Court of Auditors of the German Republic has recently asked the Reinhard-Heydrich-Stiftung to submit the budget, the annual budget and the Foundation's statutes, on the grounds that it is a public body governed by Reichsrecht, which is under its supervision. I have informed him that the requested documents could not yet be forwarded to him because the foundation was still under construction. I use this occasion for a further reference to the question of the statutes (see my letter of 25.7.44 - III/1-R 5008 on your procedure IV R-218/43). A draft statute was presented to me shortly after the Errich-Lder Foundation tungrim Janrelg42 directly (not via Division III) and the Oberregierungsrat Rotermund has Professor Dr. Beyer pointed out at the time that the draft Statute Article 3 of the Ordinance on the Establishment of a Reingard-Heydrich-Stiftung, Reichsstiftung für wissenschoftiche Porschung in Prague of July 1942 (Regulation Gazette of the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, p. 2ll ff.) was not in line. the Voratand (Head) of the Reichsstiftung is appointed and dismissed by the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia in agreement with the Reich's Minister for Science, Education and Education, while according to the draft constitution the respective University Rector should be the head of the Foundation. However, the draft has been submitted in spite of that, because the deviation from the reg ulation $\ R -2 y/4