STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 648, sig. 109-4/396

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- 21 - proportional representation. Consequently, of the 450 members of the Czechoslovak Farlament, i.e., the Abgeordnetenhsuses and the Senate, 3l3 Techechen and Slowaken, 106 Germans, 18 Hungarians, 2 Plen, 2 Jews and 9 Ruthenians, The minority selbat administered municipalities in which they were in the Mehrhei and also administered the district representatives. The Deutachen thus controlled 3,363 municipalities and 46 districts. The use of the minority language, especially the German language, in the traffic of the citizens with the authorities, guaranteed great freedom to these minorities on this for me se s desed te U garisch and Polish were the only languages in official traffic in the districts in which the minorities constituted more than two thirds of the population.In practice, this regulation was subjected to 2,340,000 Germans in 1930, i.e. More than two thirds of the German minority.In the districts, the minority was smaller than two-thirds, but more than one-fifth of the population, the administration simultaneously used the official language/techechic or Slovak/ and minority language; administrative decisions relating to minority members were published in two languages. In any case, the Germans always had the right to express themselves in the German language, the Hungarians in the unric language, etc., this de da ee n qo B ce where the German population constituted less than one fifth of the population, the valorization used the Czech language, but used the German speaking in every gele- geneit, if the citizen belonging to the German minority