English Translation

- l - V A presentation of administrative development in the area of Bohemia and Moravia from the Austrian period to the administrative reform of June 1942 in a short lecture can of course not claim to be complete and must be limited to essential aspects. It must be limited to showing the great line of development and the historical and ideological documents to which it is due. What we today generally understand by the term "Austrian Administration" is essentially due to the reforms of Maria Theresia. Under its and its successor government, with the philosophy of enlightenment and liberalism, the enlightened absolutist state of law or, with other signs, liberalist rule of law found the culmination of its development, as the UY8OR's sharpest expression, we can look at all that we today summarize under the term "Oesterreichische Verwaltung". The power-political preconditions for the reform activities of Maria Theresia were, on the one hand, by the oblation of the rule of the Bohemian nobility na der de and de se