English Translation

The Court ruled that, contrary to the general order, the heads of the occupational and social affairs group should exercise the subscription right in all matters not reserved to him or to the Under-Secretary of State and to the Secretary of State as well as to group leaders. However, with this arrangement only a very small part of the difficulties was removed.The aim pursued with the sighting of the department, to ensure a tighter leadership, could not be achieved due to the size of the division and the range of tasks of its groups to the desired extent. It should be advisable to consider a different breakdown, namely that the groups of Division II, whose business area is particularly large and divided into closed areas, will become departments themselves.The future Division II would then comprise the current Group "Economy" and the special section "Reichsbank". The groups "Food and Agriculture" and "Forest and Hunting" could be grouped into another section. Division IV would cover the area of the present category of labour and social affairs with the following groups: 1.) Labour input and unemployment assistance 2.) Wage policy, labour protection and labour inspectorate 3.) Social security 4.) Supply 5.) Housing and housing matters The current group "Price formation" would have to be integrated either in the Reich of Division I or Division IV. Whether or not some of the previously department-free groups can be grouped into departments can not be determined without a precise knowledge of their field of responsibility, their previous subdivision and the nature of the work involved,