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

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57 - 5 - public service. Dämit had to take up the only small part of the old state territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in relation to the old State additionally a civil servant body of 92,00 staff, of which those leaving the Czech state service. The number of civil servants is as follows: after a census of 30.6.1924, there were 391.195 scheduled civil servants and contractual officials with posts in the old Czecho-Slovak state at that time. With this number, the operators of the municipal self-government, as well as the employees and workers are not included. Due to the above-mentioned construction measures, 36,000 retired at that time, but the status of the operators already made up the number of 371.000 in 1938. If the starting date was 1.9.1938, then in the former Czech State there were 374,104 scheduled officials and contract staff on posts, including teachers, 48,346 local self-government staff, together with 422,450 staff, with a population of 7 million Munschen. - The Office of Officials was therefore one of the most urgent measures that the German leadership in the Protectorate had to demand from the Czech authorities. On the one hand, the individual Czech civil servants could only be used for higher pay, more completed and, on the other hand, paid a correspondingly higher salary if the personal income of the protectorate government was significantly reduced. However, the then Czech autonomous government did not comply with the instructions of the Reichsprotektor to the extent necessary, so that the Reich's protector had to carry out the necessary measures himself, on the basis of his legislative authority, a process which was necessary in the