A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2144, sig. 109-8/27

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130 posts remain vacant, a German occupation can be carried out at any time, if the development makes this necessary. Then it could also be considered, for example, to use in the Sormer the senior councillor appointed in Olmütz Dr. P a n e n k a in Brno and to appoint Jungwirth, if he has proven himself, in Olmillz zua Police Director. On his proposal and on the basis of his request, the Deputy Police Director, Chief Police Officer Dr. J u n g w i r t h , a People's German, was commissioned by the Ministeriwm of the Interior to carry out the business 12.) Police Directorate Moravian=Ostrava : In March 1939, the VolkaGerman Chief Police Council Dr. M e r 1 e r _ale Komissarischer Polizeidiréktor is said to have been set up by the Vehrmacht. His final appeal to the police director is based on a negative jurisprudence of the commander of the security police. However, his d ed P in the police administration has no renunciations and can now still follow e qo s, otherwise use him somewhere else. I have the impression that the rejection by the SD. is due to local differences about factual decisions, which can never be completely avoided. Dr. Merler is to be taken over as Oberregierungsrat ind en Reichsdienst. Concerns against this measure should not have been expressed by any side, not even by the SD. Dr. M e r l e r, which has since been taken over by the Oberregovernungsrat in the meantime as Ober Regierungs Rat, is formally entrusted with the commissarizing perception of the services. 13.) Polizeidirektion Olmütz : With the order of the Reichs-Protettor from 26.l.1940 the Oberregierungsrat (friher Oberpolizeirat) Dr. Alfred P a n e n k a was appointed by the government in Troppau, who had been seconded by the RldI to the Oberlandrat in Olmutz fir this purpose, to the interim police director. It was introduced on 1 February 1940. As a result, in this German city a management of the