English Translation

38 A_b_s_c h_r_i_ft_: November 7, 1941. Circular decree confidentially to the gentlemen Group leaders, department heads and district head of the interim management of the Sn On November 4, 1941, I was appointed by handwritten order of the deputy Reichsprotektor, H-Obergruff. H e y d r i c h as follows released my office in the ground office: "On 25 October 1941 the Führer decided that in the future the decree of 7 October 1939 concerning the jurisdiction of the Reichsführer-l as Reichskommissar for the consolidation of German ethnicity also had effect in the Protectorate of Bohemia-Mähren. It is therefore necessary to resolve the existing human resources union between the Director of the Land Office and the Head of the Food and Agriculture Group and to fill the post of Commissioner of the Soil Office. Therefore, I hereby return the order given to you at the time to lead the ground office and release you from your duties iad duties as acting director of the ground department. I need to thank Him on this occasion for the duty-free work you have done as head of the soil department. I would like to express my warmest thanks to all of you for the work that has been done during almost two years of cooperation, which has enabled me to build up the Land Office in its present form and to prepare it for the coming major tasks.