English Translation

4.sheet on the work report of the Deputy Primator Prof. Dr. Pfitzner for the period from l./io. to 30./11.1941. THE PRIMATOR-STELL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MAIN STATE PRAG. If significant developments can be reported in the area of administrative organisation and certain phenomena in the town centre, some of the main areas of urban administrative work are still in the planning stage. A visit to the Planning Commission convinced me that the paths that we can recognise from our point of view are now being taken. I believe that it is a decisive achievement of the planning commission under its new direction that it has drawn up a land use plan which offers the possibility of drawing up plans on a firmer basis and, in individual cases, taking objectively justified decisions on construction projects. The solution sought, in the field of transport, especially in the area of the metro, is also largely in line with the ideas that have been repeatedly brought to us by the past history of the city. In the last few days, Dr Stroebel, the Stuttgart Building Director, who was expected to be appointed as a building council, has once again been given the opportunity to discuss the entire area of planning, the previous activities of the Planning Commission and the tasks of the City Administration in building matters. Although these negotiations, as we can understand, have not yet led to a final result, one still seems to be certain that the appointment of one man as the manager of the entire building system of the city and as president of the planning commission brings with it great difficulties already because the forces of one individual will hardly be enough to take care of both areas of responsibility to the same extent. For the city in its present state, it remains the most urgent requirement to attract a representative of the building sector as a city building council, which is mainly dedicated to the general reconstruction of the city building office in both factual and personnel terms. We have never concealed the fact that the German position on this point is extremely difficult, because qualified technical forces can hardly be won in our time. I have asked Dr. Stroebel to allow him to win the first prize in Prague.