English Translation

44a Der Reichsminister der Finanzen Berlin W 8, 31 March 1941 Wilhelmplatz 1/2 A 4022 Sud - 4963 IV Subject: Age of employment of the Sudeten German civil servants The period for determining the age of service of the sudeten Germans according to sections II and III of the circular of 9 February 1939 (RBB, p.28) should have originally ended on 30 June l939. This period has been renewed, for the last time until March 3, 1941. Individual Reichsressorts have now approached me with the request to renew the period for determining the age of employment according to Sections II and III of the Circular of February 9, 1939. For individual groups of officials the decision that they should also be taken in the Reichsdienst in the civil service has been taken only recently. The execution of the planned appointment of these officials cannot be carried out until 3l March 1991. 2. For many officials it is not yet established which posts they receive in the Imperial Service. It is, therefore, impossible to employ them until 3 March 1994 or to treat them as planned officials. 3. A number of Sudeten German officials are currently out-of-plan or other non-planned officials. These officials can only be employed as scheduled officials by abbreviating their non-scheduled (non-planning) duty periods before 3 March 1994. This acronym, however, is unwinned and harmful to the training of civil servants, and I had serious concerns about the last extension of the deadline for the application of Sections II and III of the Circular of 9 February 1983. Any extension of this period will mean that more and more civil servants will have a retirement age due to the age of Section II of the Circular Decree and will thus be made more favourable than the majority of their professional authorities 60964.