STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1341, sig. 109-4/1095 (damaged)

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2 significant change in the administrative structure of the Protectorate. The Reforn served the purpose under the emphasis of the autonomy of the Protectorate, which was made possible by the measurerby H-Obergruppenführer Heydrich (purification action, conversion of the protectorate government) to eliminate the ever-increasing coexistence of the two administrations in the interest of the saving of forces and to prevent an even further swelling of the Reich administration. On the other hand, the imperative of the strengthened Reichsaufsicht made it difficult to make these more effective in a new way, no longer from the outside, but from the inside through the incorporation of German forces into the decisive key positions of the autonomous administration. To this end, officials of the Reichsprotektor's authority were largely supervised at the same time as tasks in the antenomalous central authorities and the staff of the former Oberlandratsamten were transferred to the state authorities and district authorities. In addition, the Oberlandrats remained in their districts as inspectors of their official status and still remained organs of the immediate Reichsaufsicht. With the establishment of the German State Ministry, the time has come to make you in the highest authority the clear divorce, as it is already carried out in the subordinate authority. The incorporation of German forces into the autonomous central authorities now also allows for an external organizational separation between the o b e r s t e n Reichsaufsicht (i.e. the supervision of those matters of the autonomous administration, in which according to the existing regulations an express instruction, consent or approval of the German State Minister must be obtained in which, in view of their fundamental or political importance, the German Minister of State must exert influence on the auto nome administration on its own initiative) and the sensitious imperial view (by means of direct influence by the German forces incorporated into the autonomous central authorities). Thus, the German Steatsministeriun for Bohemia and Moravia can be the Supreme Reich Authority in its personal.