STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2631, sig. 109-12/279 (damaged)

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9/25 de - a declining legal development which cannot be regarded as the will of the political leadership. It would also benefit only the enemy of the state. Thus, the secret state police would increasingly be confronted with the need to fight in different parts of the empire under different conditions. The legislative provisions adopted in individual parts of the Reich, which expressly declare the administrative review of state police measures inadmissible, must be regarded as general proof that a solution to our national order would not be justified and that the will of the political leadership would not correspond. These provisions were created directly from the needs of the fight against anti-state aspirations and from the experience gained with the administrative control of state police measures. In Prussia and Baden, the Supreme Administrative Courts held that the appeal procedure of the existing laws, which was established for all other police tasks, should also be applied to state police measures, as long as and in so far as no law expressly provides the opposite. They thus opened up the possibility of assessing, on the basis of a practice rich in Prussia, the usefulness or unusability of the administrative dispute procedure as a form of control of state police measures. Therefore, the legislative consequences, which were drawn out here, are of decisive importance. If we look at the legislative development of the problem in Prussia, we must note that its 1) See above, pp. 2 et seq.