English Translation

OV Group Teaching Prague, July 1942 Ministerial Councillor Dr.Heckel Betrift: Administrative simplification in the school system To be presented to the State Secretary by the hand of Mr. Head of Division I: The preliminary plans for the basic measures for administrative simplification and administrative concentration in the schools and the school administration have been completed. I am briefly presenting the basic principles and the guidelines in the following. 1. The integration of Group I1 into the Ministry of Education has taken place. The Ministry of Schools must now be transformed from the inside into a steering and management post and its administration must be transferred to the subordinate departments. Then the oversized apparatus of this ministry can also be reduced, legs internal organization will also be able to be simplified in accordance with the general guidelines of the department I. 2. The German and Czech school councils in Prague and Brno have already merged into a single German-led authority on paper. The practical implementation takes place in Brno during July and August, and in Prague during August and September. Both service stations then move into buildings. Within the unitary authority, sections are subdivided into sections, which are German-led, German-speaking and Czech-speaking, ensuring that the affairs of the German schools and teachers, with the exception of purely computational matters, are dealt with only by Germans. This type of organisation prevents any independent Czech group formation from the outset.The Czech school system is constantly under German management and control. 3. The administrative autonomy of the state schools councils and the