English Translation

Whether, to what extent and at what point in time a further enforcement of the representatives with German authorities is possible, e.g. by means of a change of the applicable law, is currently examined. German municipal leaders and German government commissioners have until now only been employed in relatively few municipalities. In 5 cases (Brünn, Böhm. - Budweis, Iglau, Moravian=Ostrava and Olomouc) the Reichsprotector has appointed German government commissioners himself. In lo cases, at the request of the Reichsguardor, the Prime Minister instructed the competent protectorate authorities to dissolve the municipal representatives and to appoint the proposed People's Germans as government commissioners, a small number of other cases are still under way. The majority of the Regierungskommissioner (Regierung Commissioners) who have been appointed by the German troops to oversee the local authorities in advance, are persons who have already been given legalization of a state which has already been established, but the measures taken so far in this area are sufficient to enable them to be effective. It is not necessary to ensure the German influence wherever it is necessary in the interest of the German population and in the general interests of the Reich. I therefore ask the Lords Oberlandraten personally to examine in detail whether and in which departments of your district the replacement of the Czech mayors or government commissioners against solct German ethnicity still appears to be appropriate. In the examination of this question it is not decisive whether a municipality is at present. A German majority, or a particularly strong German minority, is or does not have. Rather, it is important whether the exchange in German local interest is necessary. This will be especially the case where the Czechisation policy has been particularly strongly pursued over the last 20 years.