STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1858, sig. 109-5/86

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I have now ordered that the necessary measures be immediately followed up and that there should also be complete records of all the arrested civil servants and employees of the state and local authorities in the Land of Moravia. I have also been asked by the State Police Department not only to limit itself to the day-to-day reports in the case of arrests of persons in the public service, but to provide me with information, if possible, on such arrests in each individual case, with details of the reason. A greater attention will also have to be paid to the personnel relations at the gendarmerie in Moravia. In the staff of the Gendarmerie commander in Brno, Colonel Klofanda, in addition to the people's German lieutenant colonel Langhammer, there are 3 further staff and inspdction officers, of whom the lieutenant colonels Drozda is a legionary and barely masteres the German language, and the two others can also be addressed as reliable. The three adjutants of the Kcmmandeur are distinguished chauvinists, in particular the captain Hodek, who is taken over by the Czech army, who deals with the personnel matters of the gendarmerie officers. At the Gendarmary departments in Moravia are of the 9 commanding posts, of which 2 are currently unoccupied, with