Provincial President in Brno, Administration by the Order of the Reich (1939–1945)

This fonds is important for finding out about the political, cultural and economic history of occupied Moravia. It contains plans for the gradual Germanisation and liquidation of the Czech nation, and in it we find records about the Aryanization of Jewish property and establishment of forced administrators. The following archival records relate to the Jewish history: In the presidium files marked PA (timeframe not given) – Regulation on Jewish houses in Moravská Ostrava for the needs of the Protectorate police; Investigation of Jewish origin of Dr. Felix Riess from Nový Jičín. Information about the builder Karel Pelischek, a former mason and colleague of the Jewish firm Zeisel and Pokora; Pricing misdemeanour at Jewish firm Vilém Munk in Letovice. In the part Organisation of Station: Situational report (inter alia, the Jewish question). In the part Civil Law: Citizenship of Jewish people of mixed race (regulations); marriages of Jews; legitimisation of children, adoption, guardianship – registrations of Jews, corrections to registers, divorces. In the part Enemy Property: List of enemy property (registrations of Polish and Jewish property); Administration of enemy property (reports of hauliers about stored property of Jews). Military affairs: Working duty – employment of foreigners and Jews. In the part General Matters: Employees of Protectorate offices (Jews of mixed origin); Cult matters (freeing from regulations of Nuremburg anti–Jewish regulations, statements about origin, appointment of priests). In the part Selected Files from 1942–1945: Files of former employee Franz Lang: List of completed revision reports in Jewish businesses; Files of Franz Lang (Aryanization in Brno, lists of Jewish firms; Aryanization in Olomouc lists of Jewish firms in Olomouc, Prostějov and Kroměříž). The fonds also contains materials about the loss of German citizenship applying mostly to opponents of Nazism, communists and Jews.

The fonds is divided into: A) Presidium files (they make up the largest part of the fonds); B) Land President in Brno – Administration by the Order of the Reich; C) Land President in Brno – Department Pol.; D) Land President in Brno – Inspector of Uniformed Police, department L.