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

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65 -13 - As an example, I cite the current head of my accounting department, which has to regulate the entire financial management of the district. This activity therefore requires very extensive knowledge and achievements. The current head is a young civil servant from the lower career instead of the previous shot accounting secretary. With this young man, I have put a very happy grip on him, because he is capable and tireless in his work, and feels himself to be more promising in his modest career later on. Interested in this case is the remuneration of this official, who in his responsible job earns about 150th RM a month. Another stark example may be his younger brother, who also provides valuable office services, but who is still in a working relationship and cannot be put into the corresponding employee and civil servant relationship, since any regulations are contrary to this or also the blocking regulations that we have issued. This young man earns 90.-- RM a month with his wife and child and calls himself a fully used office worker "district worker". These few examples may be used to identify the importance of changing the employment and pay regulations for the further development of the autonomous workforce. We are, if we have the opportunity to create such people, who of course have to be checked and selected by the German head of authority itself, we are in a position to create in a few years a middle type of civil servant, which would be about the same as the German one. It is also necessary to add to this category of civil servants the higher administrative officials, for whom there is no longer any need after the establishment of new employment plans, and I do not think that this reform can be carried out far enough by retraining or by carrying out major tasks alone. If, on the other hand, it is always demanded from a higher point of view that the Czech civil servants be reorganised and, if possible, that Czech officials be dismantled, it must be noted on the contrary that a reduction in the number of officials may only be carried out on a scheduled basis.