English Translation

A presentation of the administrative development in the area of Bohemia and Moravia from the Austrian period to the administrative reform of June 1942 in a short lecture can of course no claim to completeness be raised and must be limited to the most vesicular points of view, it must be confined to the large line of development and the historical and worldly documents to which it can be attributed, what we understand today in general by the term "Austrian Administration" is essentially due to the reforms of Maria Theresia, under her and the ill-fated Jachsufiger government found with the philosophy of enlightenment and liberalism also that enlightened abso- lutistic or - with other Prescribe - liberalist rule of law the culmination of its development, the sharpest expression of which we can consider all that we today summarize under the term "Austrian Administration". The power-political preconditions for Maria Theresias varen's re-activity are given on the one hand by the consequences of the breaking of the rule of the Bohemian nobility after the Battle of the White Mountains in 1620 and by the Vienna Centralism founded on it, on the other hand, by the Philosophic of Enlightenment and the new state idea of the constitutional state on which it is based, which we follow. - since the battle on the White Mountain, in which the Ausgang and Folgan, rebelling against the central administration of the Habsburgs, have been brought to the head, dispossessed, executed or hunted down by the country, the nobility, as (- national holder of the administration under some repossessions, precipitously, and that development, at the conclusion of which the Austrian occupation bsumte stands, takes its beginning, Duren and also the fact that especially the higher officials in senior posts vgrwiagend - 2 -