THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1777, sig. 109-5/5

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07 - 2 - 20 The Upper Land Councils are enabled by the relief from administrative work to devote themselves to their actual tasks as supervisory and control bodies of the Reich Protector. Their number is reduced from 15 to 7. Through their supervision, they have to act in such a way that the tasks of the Reichsauftragsverwaltung are fulfilled according to the Reich laws and the goals of the state leadership. As a special task they are tasked with besides the party and in agreement with it the care of the Germans. In order to ensure a uniform orientation also of the specialized administrations and to immediately clarify fundamental questions beyond individual districts, a "general inspector of the administration" has been set up temporarily. His experience in the inspection activity at the same time constitutes a means of further developing the administrative reform. It is intended to integrate the authority of the Reich Protector in accordance with the 8 autonomous ministries and the postal administration, and to incorporate the department heads and their staff into the key positions of the autonomous central authorities, so that the Reich's protector has direct influence through this leadership staff with the slightest need for personnel. Similarly, the central administration of the Reichsprotektor's authority and the transfer of these tasks by Division I, the head of which is also deputy to the autonomous Minister of the Interior, is about to be abolished. At the same time, a reorganisation of the heavily translated autonomous authorities is in preparation. It takes place by shifting numerous tasks to the subordinate bodies and by simplifying the largely outdated administrative provisions. This will make the cumbersome administrative apparatus powerful and provide a significant part of the Czech operations of war-related work. In the autonomous ministry of the interior, the posts of a general commander of the uniformed police and a general commandant of the non-uniformed police have been established.