STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 856, sig. 109-4/608

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He did not consider, for example, the establishment of the German district head Dr.Vanitschek without his previous participation as an agenian procedure, although the permanent party office was properly engaged in each persohal decision. a) Similarly, Kreisleiter Kemenovicz demands his authoritative involvement in numerous purely administrative matters, personally wants to have given his approval to the technical plans for the expansion of the German gym, even if the plans have come into being with the full participation of his office, in particular the local gymnastics leader, and afterwards are not different, deals with the division of my gendarmes, etc. He has also repeatedly intervened in matters of arbitration in such a way that he conducted inexhaustible factual negotiations with interested parties, whose intention and result was partly only known by chance to my office afterwards, or otherwise he claimed party sovereignty for purely economic transactions (e.g. Sale of Kosmos shares, mills or malt factory Hirch Nedweis, recruitment of specialists in the Kalzfabrik Hatschein) 2. Subject: Local groups. a) The local group leader in Lithuania feels in accordance with his orientation by the district leader as the general representative of the Great German Reich in all, i.e. also all administrative matters. Although his brother is a government commissioner there and could therefore, without serious complaint, represent numerous German affairs with the other Czech-led protectorate authorities, it was difficult for him in months to get used to the fact that he was not allowed to intervene permanently with the district authority. He, for example, continued to appoint senior beante of the district office on M6 p Mr Mu. the local group and gave them not misunderstood martntin at mbart "advisory advice". hartohin His intervention was also not limited to matters in which German interests were concerned.