THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1785, sig. 109-5/13

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English Translation

X. 9V -LL - If a comparison with the present can be drawn here, the district chief today has lost his so-called non-partisan position, and has become practically almost a pure organ of the Minicterium of Innerti. He has thus become disparately other administrative branches. As a result, they often consider it necessary, in turn, to have equal status; to appoint officials in the middle and lower levels, who receive their direct instructions in the best possible professional independence from the district head, Another explanation for this may also be the far greater importance which the specialist administrations have due to the unimagined economic and technical development. The German people, convulsed in the narrowest space, simply cannot find the basis of life according to them any different than by a total exhaustion of all its raw material, agricultural and industrial possibilities, but this often requires today a technical centralism, which hardly anyone at the time thought of at that time, forced large-scale planning, classification and management of production and consumption, which can now simply not be done differently than centrally. On the other hand, it is clear that this has created a problem for the administration which is still waiting for its solution in the future and which the time has not yet known. What is of particular interest to us in this context, however, is the fact that, for example, two or more political districts were united into one building district for the construction service and only one of the district authorities in this building district was entrusted with the provision of the construction services for the whole area. These services concerned particularly road and water structures. For this they were available to road masters and electricity supervisors, likewise for the implementation of the forestry supervision the countries were divided into forest inspection districts, which included also if a majority of political districts, And. -12 - 3