English Translation

35 2 - Exercising his supervisory right by the President of the Government acting on a provisional basis. The Commissioner requested the approval of the amendment of the statutes through the President to the Minister of the Reich for Church Affairs. After granting this permission, the arrangement was assigned to the new purpose, i.e. either the German Reich, the Wehrmacht, the N.S.V. In this way, in the period from January to June l939 it was possible to make about 20 institutions with the associated assets again serviceable to the people's whole. This activity was carried out under the leadership of SS-group leader Hildebrandt. When the question of the settlement of settlers was also raised by the transfer of various properties, SS group leader Hildebrandt called SS-Oberführer von Gottberg to Wiesbaden in his capacity as head of the district office at the time and asked him to check the properties for their suitability for settling. SS- Oberführer von Gottberg visited approximately lo transferred properties and promised to speak from Berlin about the further application. At this time the association for folk care existed in Frank- furt a.M. Occasionally, in a discussion in Berlin, SS-Oberführer von Gottberg said that he saw the possibility of financing large settlement projects in the transfer of the power of the church. Based on the experience gained, this conclusion was also right. Together with SS group leader Hildebrandt, the aim was therefore to extend the work, which had first been exercised in West Germany, to the Reich area. As a supporter and summary organization, the Deutsche Reichsverein für Volkspflege und