STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 128, sig. 109-2/29

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MinRat Rheins (Reichsf.-4, Orpo), MinRaat Frhr.v.Puttkammer (Rereichsprot., BdO-Stab), RegR. Arndts (Richspórot., Budget Group), Major d. Schutzpol. Gritzbach (Re Reichsprot. and Bd O-Stab), on the other hand, took the view that the purely external, not also budgetary, belonging to the Reichsprotector should be sufficient for the granting of the Kiniste- rial allowance. After further discussion about the organizational position of the BdO and Bds and their subordinate police departments to the Reichsführer 4 etc. MinRat Vogels (RFM) maintained his position and considered that all departments not involved in ministerial tasks had to be separated from the authority of the Reich Protector. MinRat Dr. Delbrück (RFu) and in particular MinRaat Kallenbach (RFß) maintained that the nature of the activities of the officials should be decisive. MinRait Dr.Peucker (RH.d.D.R.) informed that, according to a more cautious and more favourable estimate, at least 80 % of all the administrative police departments, including the police, were involved. Bdo, officials and employees employed in the Protectorate would practice a non-central government activity, which was contradicted by the representatives of the BdO, Prague. MinRat Dr. Peucker maintained his findings and pointed out that the question of granting the ministerial allowance was completely resolved with the staff of the Bd and that only a few members of the Federal Ministry of Education who were entrusted with central authority tasks would actually receive the ministerial grant. Both the representatives of the BdO, Prague and MinRst Dr.Siegert (Reichsf.-, Sipo) pointed out that the BDS had a wealth-owned substructure and therefore a number of non-central government tasks could be transferred to the designated posts. However, this was not the case with the order police. It is also not the case that individual posts or units of the Bd0 are directly subordinated to the head of the enterprise 4 etc. in Berlin, and that they receive instructions from them, as MinRat Kallenbach accepts. RegR. Arndts (Reichsprot., Budget Group) suggested that the Court of Justice and the RdF should approach the Reicheprotector to make appropriate organizational changes. He could not assess whether such changes were possible, but perhaps there was such a possibility on the basis of the new Führerer Decree of 7 May 1942 (RGBl. I p. 329). He pointed out that in the Ceneral Government no differences were made according to the nature of the individual's activity and that the same orders were also made for the Protectorate.