English Translation

33 - 3 - Words ds 4j-Obergruppenführer Heydrich from his speech of 26.5.42 - "this autonomous administration by the rise to the Reich's mandate management even closer to the leadership of the empire". The Oberlandrats, on the other hand, were again led back to their actual task, namely to be primarily a management and steering body in their district and free of all administrative small-scale work. This is also reflected in their close examination of the office "Oberlandrat - Inspector of the Reich Protector". They could therefore be greatly reduced in their personnel occupation and are now only occupied by the Oberlandrat, a clerk, mostly a government councillor, an inspector, a typist and a driver. The Oberlandrüte were also reduced in numbers, from 15 to 7, and their area of office - reorganized, so today Oberlandraten exist only in Prague, Pilsen, Budweis, Königgrätz, Iglau, Brno and Moravian-Ostrava, i.e. 4 in Bohemia and 3 in Moravia. How did these measures have an atmospheric effect among the German and Czech population? The German population welcomed the reconstruction in the fundamental sense because it recognized that it gave a place to break into the Czech positions in the autonomous administration. Above all, it was possible to integrate Germans into the autonomous management, a means of strengthening Germanism "on the flat land". In the places where the district authorities were put under German leadership, one was proud to have a German district captain. However, voices were also voiced, which again desired the former state, where the Oberlandrat worked all the matters concerning the Germans centrally, and which regretted that now - in the