ORGANIZATION OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK GOVERNMENT; MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION

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• Publication Date: December 22, 1952
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COUNTRY
SUBJECT
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
Czechoslovakia
TraMPOrtation - Air, rail, water, highway
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
ORGArrIZATIOA OF THE CZBCHOSLOVAg MMMT:
Mg! r OF NATION
subordinate units. g is the organization of the Ministry of Transportation and
r1NISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION, IR PRAGUE
Minister
Alois Petr.
?Ie~u_yt? Minister
Josef Radvanovsky, ministerial counselor, Director-General of Railroads.
Presidium DSaartpent
Chief: Dr A. Eabenicht, ministerial counselor.
Assistant Chief: Alexandr Chmelik, ministerial counselor.
Presidium Section 1
Chief: Alexandr Chmelik, ministerial counselor.
Functions: Presidium affairs; personnel matters relating to the employees
of the Ministry of Transportation and the directors of the state iaiiroads;
library; press office; bui
Presidium; a?xili~ administration; archives; Office cf the
ary offices.
1952
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Presidia Section 2
Chief: MW Fra"p senior departmental couwselor.
F,wetions; pyaaying
neat of materials and Inv,eandntOrY;coordinat
apportlion of
CC quotas.
Presidium Section 3
Chief: Dr Bretislav Mikan, senior.depsrtmental counselor.
Functions: Organizatiomal matters; rationali26tion.
Presidium Section 4
Chief: Dr Jiadr. Taraba, senior departmental counselor.
?unction; Miitary matters.
Presidium Section 5
Chief: Dr Josef Nemecek, senior departmental couasrlar.
Fnctions: Legislative matters.
Slovak Presidium Section
Chief: B4gr Ladjslav Hirko, senior technical coeosisear.
FWwtions: Slovak affairs.
ktt I - State Aeronautics
Administration
Chief: Brig Gen Vilem Stanovs
Iqr.
Assistant: tee,. Prantisek Chva
, senior deputmental counselor.
ADDS-"*"-...~nt General Administration
Chief: Bngr Hugo Berounsl., ministerial counselor.
Deputy; Bngn'lrantisek Chvatal, senior departmental counselor.
Section IA Chief: Dr Rudolf Berman, goveruiental counselor.
relating to aeronautics.
ingetoae: Matters of organizstien; budget; personnel and general matters
Section 1/2
Chief: FnV Miloslav Polak, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Planning.
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44' Section 1/3
Chief: Dr Karel Kristufek, senior departmental counsel,"
.
Functions: Legal and legislative matters.
Section I/4
Chief: E:gr Hugo Berounaky, ministerial counselor.
Functions: International trade relations; aeronautics; press and publicity.
Sbde ent II - Technical Service
Chief: Engr Fr. Chvata.1' senior departmental counselor.
Deputy: Engr Karel Weysser, senior departmental counselor.
Section II/1
Chief: Dr Engr Cldrich Bruha, departmental counselor,
Functions: Aircraft; instruments; equipment.
Section II/2
Chief: Engr F,-ant- Chvatal, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Motors and the purchase of aircraft materiel.
Section 11/3
Chief: Fk gr Vitezlav Vek, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Management of aircraft materiel.
Section II/4
Chief: Engr Karel Weysser, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Training of aircraft personnel; matters relating to air
associations and private aviation; aviation register.
S?'~"~?"?* * mat III - Air Safetv
and Oaerations Se-
Chief: Engr Miroslav Nekvasil' senior departmental counselor.
Deputy: Engr Jaroslav Karez, senior departmental, counselor.
Section III/I
Chief: Engr Boh. Dvorak, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Administrative and economic matters relating to airports;
general matters relating to airports; construction of airports.
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Section III/2
Chief: Engr Jaroslav Sarez, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Direction and technical equipment of the Air Safety Service.
Section 111/3
Chief: Dr Zdenek Dvorny, departmental counselor.
Functions: Meteorological service.
Section III/4
Temporary Chief: Iadislav Kvetoa.
Functions: Aircraft accidents.
Subdepartment IV - Construction Service
Chief: Engr Vaclav Stejekal, senior departmental counselor.
Deputy: Engr Vladimir Svejda, senior departmental, counselor.
Section IVA
Chief: Engr Vladimi. SveJda) senior departmental. counselor.
Functions: General construction matters connected with aeronautics;
construction of landing areas, lines, and airport communications systems;
marine construction connected with aviation.
Section IV/2
Chief: Engr Vaclav Stejskal, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Surface construction and special construction; interior equip-
ment of buildings.
Section IV/2a
Chief: Engr Vladimir Svejda, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Maintenance work; direction of construction and allocation of
building materials; purchase of buildings etc. fo be demolished; subsidies
for nongovernment airfield construction.
.Section Pv/3
Acting Chief: Engr Stanislav Doubek, senior surveying counselor.
Functions: Air navigation maps and air mapping service; photogrammetry;
purchase of land.
Department P - Navigation
Chief: Dr .;clef Sladecek, senior departmental counselor.
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Chief: Engr Rudolf Feifer, ministerial counselor
Functions: Operational, transport, and transit matters.
Chief: Engr Zdenek Lastovka, departmental counselor.
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Secacion S/a Bering.
Functions: Legal matters connected with transportation -i
Chief: Engr Jan Dufek, senior departmental counselor
De a2tment S - Highway Transnortat,on
Functions: Matters relating to legal administration and legislation.
Chief: Dr Karel Valasek, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Matters relating to transportation
Operation. charges, and economical
Chief: Dr Cyril Cerny.
Chief: Dr Frantisek Sirensky, ministerial counselor.
Functions: International transport affairs.
Chief: Ergr Ferdinand Zinke, senior technical counselor.
Functions: Matters relating to ships and =chincry.
Functions: Construction matters and related operational engineering
matters.
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Chief: Engr Antonin gortlik, senior
technical counselor.
Functions: General matters; matters relating to personnel, finance, and
nautical transport.
Chief: Dr Frantisek Kralik, ministerial counselor.
Functions: Matters of mechanical and structural engineering.
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Section S/c
Chief: Dr Josef ICnnc, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Matters relating to legislation and legal administration.
Section S/d
Chief: Dr Otakar I(yselka, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Legal-administrative matters connected with commercial
transport.
Section S/1
Chief: Engr Josef Rosenkranz, technical counselor.
Functions: Matters relating to passenger and freight transportation.
Section S/2
Chief: Engr Josef Vihsn, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Matters connected with transportation and rates.
Section S/3
Chief: Engr Frant. Korinek, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Matters connected with mechanical engineering, workshops, and
materials.
Section S/4
Chief: Engr Jarcmmir Eminger, senior technical counselor.
Functions: Erection, maintenance, and equipment of stnutures.
Section S/5
Chief: Karel Tschauder, senior administrative director.
Functions; Personnel, financial, and economic matters.
Railroad Transportation
Department I - Commercial
Chief: Dr Josef Trhon.
Section 1/1
Chief: Dr Frantisek Benda, senior departmental counselor.
Fnctions: Transportation law and regulations governing railroad transport;
transport planning.
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Section 1/2
Chief: Dr Ludvik Jakubka, ministerial counselor.
Functions: General matters connected with charges; local charges and joint
tariffs charges; domestic rates for freight shipment; special reductions in
freight rates; military rates.
Section 1/3
Chief: Dr Frantisek Boucek, ministerial counselor.
Functions: Passenger rates; baggage and express rates; special reductions
in passenger, baggage, and express-freight rates.
Section IA
Chief: Dr Jan Hessler, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Rates for trap'jportation of goods to and froj foreign countries.
Section 1/5
Chief: Josef Kocian, administrative director.
Functions: Tourist travel from abroad; publicity and advertising.
Department II - Transportation
Chief: Jan Kalina, senior administrative director.
Section II/i
Chief: Engr Jan Kopecky, senior departmental counselor.
Function: Passenger transportation.
Section 11/2
Chief: Engr Jaroslav Racek, senior departmental counselor
Functions: Freight trrnsportation.
Section 11/3
Chief: Engr Jan Temin, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Traffic and station service.
Section II/4
Chief: Josef Mazac, administrative director.
Functions: Car service.
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Section 11/5
Chief: Engr Vaclav Andel, ministerial counselor.
Functions: Study and planning of transport engineering equipment.
Department III - Machinery
Chief: Engr Otekar Jenista, ministerial counselor.
Section III/1
Chief: Engr Jaroslav Louda, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Car service for steam or electric trains; economic investment
and statistical matters; planning.
Section 111/2
Chief: Engr Ladislav Petru, ministerial counselor.
Functions: Rolling stock maintenance and shop service; heating, power,
and water systems; management of materials; car engineering service.
Section 111/3
Chief: Engr Josef Holy, ministerial counselor.
Functions: Electrical engineering service.
Section III/4
Chief: Engr Vlastimil Mares, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Construction of rolling stock and mechanical equipment.
Section 111/5
Chief: Engr Josep Sasek, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Supervision over the procurement of rolling stock, machinery,
equipment, and materials for the car, shop, and electrical engineering services;
procurement of operational materials; purchase of rolling stock.
Section 111/6
Chief: Engr Jan Leiner, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Matters relating to rail motor cars.
Department N -Construction and Maintenance
Chief: Engr Karel Burian, ministerial counselor.
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Section IV/1
Chief: Engr Alexander Chochol, ministerial counselor.
Functions: General matters connected with the construction and maintenance
service; cons?~uctien and operation of private railroads.
Section IV/2
Chief: Engr Frantisek Visnak, senior departmental. counselor.
Functions: Maintenance and repair of railroad suo-xstructure.
Section IV/3
Chief: Engr Frantisek Valenta, departmental counselor.
Functions: Construction of railroad superstructures.
Section N/4
Chief: Eagr Antonin Chramosta, ministerial counselor.
Functions: Matters relating to surveying and lends.
Section IV/5
Chief: Engr Jaroslav Ulrich, ministerial counselor.
Functions: Supervision of the procurement of materials for the construction
and maintenance service; sale of scrap.
Department IVs - Construction and Investment
Chief: Engr Ant. Schindler, senior departmental counselor.
Section IVa/1
Chief: Engr Jan Becvar, senior de
partmen`,.c;, emmselor.
Functions: Matters connected with technical administration, finance, and
accounting; personnel matters concerning the employees of the railroad con-
struction administrations.
Section IVa/2
Chief: Engr Josef Machan, ministerial counselor.
Functions: Railroad roadbeds, excluding bridges; excavation, masonry,,
foundation work; tunnel construction, waterwork, etc.; cable railways.
Section IVs/3
Chief: Engr Karl Lindler, ministerial counselor.
Functions: Railway bridges and engineering structures and construction.
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Section XVa/4
Chief: Engr Josef Tkalcu, ministerial counselor.
Functions: Surface construction; Planning aspects of housing measures;
architectural arrangement of buildings.
Section IVa/5
Chief: Engr Karel Slach, ministerial counselor.
ProjeFFunctions: Layout surveys and Studies; track arrangements; railroads
Department V -Safety and Cummmications
Chief: Engr A. Svoboda, ministerial counselor.
Section V/1
Chief: Ladislav Hlasny, senior technical counselor.
Functions: Matters relating to communications.
Section V/2
Chief: Engr Hubert Svoboda, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Matters relating to the safety service.
Section V/3
Chief: Engr Zd:nek Sotek, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Economic and administrative setters and matters relating to
the service offices.
Department VI - Financial
Chief: Antonin Kadlec, senior accounting director.
Section VI/1
Chief: Dr Jaroslav Cajthami, ministerial counselor.
debt. Matters relating to finance, accounting, funds, and the state
.
Section VI/2
Chief: Vaclav Kudrna, senior rccounting director.
Functions: Budget; supervision of financial management.
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Section VI/3
Chief: Dr Alois Vondracek, ministerial counselor.
Funetionse Matters relating to station service; funds and accounting;
settlement of accounts; control over traffic receipts.
Section VI/4
Chief: Otakar Jakes, ministerial counselor.
Functions: Transportation costs and statistics.
Section VI/5
Chief: Engr Vaclav Fantis, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Materiel and supply service.
Department VII - Personnel
Chief: Dr Frantisek Dostal, ministerial counselor.
Section VII/1
Chief: Bohumil Zaoral, ministerial counselor.
Functions: Personnel matters of a general nature.
Section VII/2
Chief: Dr Cenek Vidlak, senior departmental, counselor
Functions: Personnel matters of a specific and special nature.
Section VII/3
Chief: Joocf Bruha, ministerial counselor.
Functions: Personnel matters of a penal nature.
ant VIII -Social and. Cultural Matters
Chief: Dr Karel Krapka, ministerial counselor
Section VIII/l
Chief: Dr VoJtech Vondruska, ministerial counselor.
Functions: Social insurance.
Section.VIII/2
Chief: Dr Jan gorsky, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Protective social measures in the more restricted sense.
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Section VIII/3
Chief: Dr Antonin Boucek, senior departmental counselor.
Functions: Supply, housing, and economic: welfare.
Section VIII/4
Chief: Slavoi Rozmara, senior departmental counselor.
cultural aFunctions: Training and Psychological testing of employees; office for
Physical education.
Section VIII/UZS
Chief: Position not yet filled.
Functions: UZS (Ustredni Zdravotni Sprava), Central Health Administration).
Section VIII/USNP
Chief: Dr Filip Vidlak, minister{;.., counselor.
Functions: USNP (Ustredni Sprava Pro Veci Nemocenske Pojistovny CSD
Central Hospitalization Insurance Administration for the Czechoslovak State
Railroads),
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ti`ment IX - Lega]. and General Administration
Chief: Dr Julius Lackinger, ministerial counselor.
Section 7X/1
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Chief; Dr Grigorij Karel, ministerial counselor.
Functions: Legal and international matters of a general nature; matters
relating to the capital funds of the Private railroads.
Section IX/2
Chief: Dr Karel Tyl, uinisterial counselor.
Functions: Legal matters of a specific nature; matters: connected with
taxes, imposts, fees, and war damage.
Section IX/3
Chief: Vratislav Netrval, counselor of the state railroads
Functions: General administration.
Account Liquidation Section
Chief: Fraatisek Klima, administrative director.
Function; Accounts settlement.
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Accounting Section
Chief: Karel Sirek, senior accounting director.
Function: Account office and main financial office.
Commission for Transportation in Bratislava
Commissioner
K imir Bezek.
Secretariat
Personal Secretary: Alexander Kalina, senior adjutant of the state rail-
roads.
Administrative Secretary: Stefan Sutka, adjutant of the state railroads.
Presidium
Chief: Dr Karol Chalupa, senior commissar of the state railroads.
Presidium Section 1
Presidium matters; personnel matters relating to the employees of the
Transportation Commission and the directors of the sta;,e railroads; economic
administration; office of the presidium; office administration.
Chief: Alexander Kalina, senior adjutant of the state railroads.
Presidium Section 2 - Planning and Research
Office for the management of materials and inventory; quota assignment.
Chief: Engr Jan Kabelac, senior technical commissar.
Presidium Section 3
Organizational matters; rationalization; coordination; library; press and
film office; legislation; editorial; office of the Vestnik Poverenictva Dopravy
(Herald n? the Transportation Commission).
Chief: Dr Oliver Pivarcek, counselor of the state railroads.
Presidium Section !a
Military matters.
Chief: Jan Spevak, inspector of the state railroads.
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Department I - Commercial
Chief: Aladar Plech, central inspector of the state railroads.
Section 1/1
Transportation law and regulations governing railroad traffic.; transportation
planning.
Chief: Jan Dobrik, inspector of the state railroads.
Section 1/2
Local and joint rates; domestic rates for freight transportation; general
matters of rates; special reductions in freight rates; military rates.
Chief: Dr Peter May, commissar of the state railroads.
Section 1/3
T'assenger, baggage and express rates; special reduction in passenger,
baggage, and express charges.
Chief: Jozef Tomasik, inspector of the state railroads.
Section I/4
Rates for freight transportation to and from foreign countries.
Chief: Ludovit Zeman, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Section 1/5
Tourist traffic from abroad; publicity and advertising.
Chief: Anton Schnorrer, central inspector of the state railroads.
Department II - Transportation
Chief: Rudolf Ferencey, central inspector of the state railroads.
Section II/1
Passenger transport.
Chief: KarolKlobusicky, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Section 11/2
Freight transport.
Chief: Fraatisek Smolka, central inspector of the state railroads.
Secticn 11/3
Traffic and station service.
Chief: Juraj Kulina, senior inspector of the state railroads.
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Section II/4
Railroad car service.
Chief: Robert Pavlacka, senior inspector of the state railroad,-.
Section II/5
Study and planning of transportation engineering equipment.
Chief: Dezider Holeczy, inspector of the state railroads.
Department III - Machinery
Chief: Engr Juraj Okrucky, ministerial counselor.
Section III/1
Car service for steam, electric, and rail-motor traffic; economic,
investment, and statistical matters pertaining to the car service; planning.
Chief: Engr Eugen Kevicky, technical counselor.
Section 111/2
Car maintenance and shop service; allocation of materials for the shop
service; technical car service.
Chief: Engr Jan Bartuska, technical counselor.
Section 111/3
Electrical engineering service.
Chief: Miloslav Sitar, certral inspector of the state railroads.
Section III/4
Supervision of the procurement of rolling stock, machine equipment,
materials and inventory for the car, shop, and electrical engineering service.
Chief: Engr Bedrich Hak, senior technical counselor.
Department IV - Construction
Chief: Engr Jura, Trebula, senior technical counselor.
Section IV/l
C;neral matters connected with the building and maintenance service;
construction and operation of private railroads; records of operational credits.
Chief: Engr Jozef Fidransky, senior technical counselor.
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Section IV/2
Maintenance and repair of aujerstructure; records of investment credits
for railroads in operation.
tunnel, and water construction, etc.; cable railways; engineering stru uctures
Section N/3
Chief: Engr Eugen Hora, technical counselor.
Section IV/4
Matters connected with surveying and real estate.
Chief: Engr Karol Hynie, counselor in surveying.
Section P/5
Surface structures with normal instal2ations, except electric equipment;
planning for housing measures.
Chief: Adam Klan o, inspector of the state railroads.
Section N/6
Allocation of material for the construction and maintenance service;
supervision of the procurement of these materials and inventories; scrap and
obsolete material and inventory.
? Chief: Engr Rudolf Zalcik, senior technical counselor.
Section Iv/7
Study of construction and work methods; calculations and budgeting;
standardization; building economy; matters connected with the construction of
new railroads (with the exception of cable railways).
Chief: Engr Eugen Lechner, senior technical counselor.
Department V - Safety and Communications
Chief: Engr Jan Borgula, technical counselor.
Section V/1
Matters connected with the communications service.
Chief: Position vacant at present; Jan Borgula, chief of department, is
in charge.
5tction V/2
Matters connected with the safety service.
Chief: Bedrich Vavrn, senior inspector of the state railroads.
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' Section V/3
Economic, administrative and service matters; credit records.
Chief: Jan Lisy, inspector of the state railroads.
Department VI - Financial
Chief: Frantisek Mozar, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Section VIA
Matters connected with finance, accounting, cash funds, and the state debt.
Chief: Dr Ludovit Dauda, senior commissar of the state railroads.
Section VI/2
Budget and supervision of financial management.
Chief: Jozef Fratrik, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Section VI/3
Matters relating to the station cashier and accounting service, settlement.
of accounts, and control over transportation revenues.
Chief: Position vacant at present; the chief of Section VI/2 is in charge.
Section VI/4
Actual costs and statistics.
Chief: Albert Kopecky, central inspector of the state railroads.
Section VI/5
Materials and supplies service.
Chief: Samuel Janik, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Department VII- Personnel
Chief: Dr Otokar Fiser, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Section VII/1
Personnel matters of a general nature.
Chief: Dr Anton Jelencik, senior commissioner of the state railroads.
Section VII/2
Personnel matters of a specific or special nature.
Chief: Jozef Zboja, senior adjutant of the state railroads.
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Personnel matters of a penal nature.
Chief: Ferdinand Denes, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Department VIII - Social and Cultural
Chief: Dr Bohuchval Said., counselor of the state railroads.
Section VIII/l
Social insurance.
Chief: Jan Oruzinuky, senior inspector of `,,- --t-ate ram---A--.
Section VIII/2
Protective social measures in the restricted sense of the 'c.-a.
Chief: Mikulas Vaclavovic, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Section VIII/3
Supply, housing, and economic welfare.
Chief: Alfred Pitas, senior courael.or of the state railroads.
Section VIII/4
Activities connected with the cultural and physical edue-'?ins of employees;
training.
Chief: Oldrich Benda, senior inspector of the state railroads.
UZS (Central Health Administration)
Chief: Dr Alex. Granoveky, health counselor.
Department 1X - Legal and General Administration,
Chief: Dr Jozel Vesely, commissioner of the state railroads.
Section IX/1
Legal matters of e, general culture and international meters; capital
h
problems of t
e nrivave railroads.
t''.ief: Dr La'islav Ralsala, couselor of the s:,ete railroads.
Section i;/P
Legal matters of a concrete nature? trn e,, imposts, fees, ant war
Chief: Dr Emil Vidra, commissioner of the state railroads.
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Section nC/3
General administration.
Chief: Adolf Lisitzky, commissioner of the state railroads.
Department C - Elgbway Transportation
Chief: Dr Vincent Vaculik, counselor of the state railroads.
Section C/a
Official operational and transport matters.
Chief: Saiauel Somodsky, central inspector of the state railroads,
Section C/b
Official mechanical and construction engineering matters.
Chief: Engr Oskar Borovy.
Section C/c
Matters of legislation and legal administration.
Chief: Dr Stefan Kukucka, counselor of the state railroads.
Section C/1
Operational passenger and freight matters connected with the state motor
transport.
Chief: Stefan Simon, inspector of the state railroads.
Section C/2
Matters relating to the traffic and rates of the state aotor transport.
Chief: Rudolf Kraus, inspector of the state railroads.
Section C/3
Matters connected with mechanical engineering work, workshops, and materials
of the state motor transport.
Chief: Engr Stefan Dubravka, senior adjutant of the state railroads.
Section C/l
Construction, maintenance, and equipping of the installations of the state
motor transport.
Chief: Eagr Valer Zondecky, technical counselor.
Section C/5
Personnel, financial, and econcmic matters of the state motor transport.
Chief: Anton Snajdr, inspector of the, state railroads.
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Department P - Navigation
Chief: Engr Bernard Jelinek, departmental counselor.
Section P/1
General matters relating to personnel and finance.
Chief: Position vacant at present; the chief of the department is in charge.
Section P/2
Construction matters and related operational engineering matters.
Chief: Engr Juraj Pavlasek.
Section P/3
Construction and records of shipping, and of mechanical shipboard and
tranaloading equipment.
Chief: Engr Karol Tammiskovic.
Section P/4
Matters pertaining to international navigation.
Chief: Position vacant at present; the chief of Section P/6 is in charge.
Section P/5
Economic and nautical transport matters.
Chief: Capt Frantisek Cibik.
Section P/6
Matters relating to legislation and legal administration.
Chief: Dr Frantisek Slusny, commissioner of the state railroads.
Department L - Aviation
Chief: En' Augustin Jarunek, departmental counselor.
Section L/1
General administration.
Chief: Cyril Debnar, senior secretary of the auxiliary technical service.
Section L/2
Technical service.
Chief: Stefan Plesko.
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Section L/3
Air safety and operation service.
Chief: Frantisek Palkovic, controller of the auxiliary technical service.
Section L/$
Construction service.
Chief: Position vacant at present; the chief of the department is in
charge.
Account Liquidation Office
Chief: Ignac Morvic, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Accounting Office and Main Financial Office
Chief: Dezider Pasko, inspector of the state railroads.
Directorate of State Railroads in Prague
Chief of the Directorate
Dr Arnost Chmelar, ministerial counselor.
Assistant Chief for technical service: Rngr Stanislav Zahradka, senior
departmental counselor.
Assistant Chief for adainistrative serv ice: Dr Jan Euatek, governmental
counselor.
Regional Enterprise Council
Employees' Council
Section I - Commercial Service
Chief: Frantisek Sulek, central inspector of the state railroads.
Traffic and rates controllers.
Group 1
Transportation law and general
and transportation matters; shipment of freight'
express goods; matters relating to the transport and station service.
Group 2
Freight rates.
Group 3
aPassenger and baggage transport; passenger, baggage, and express goods
rate.
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Group 4
claims.
Group 5
Special passenger and freight rates.
Section II - Transport Service
Chief: Karel Latal, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Traffic controllers.
Group 1
Timetables.
Group 2
Freight transport and branch lines service; traffic direction.
Group 3
Matters connected with the station and passenger service and general
traffic matters.
Group 4
Allocation of railroad cars.
Group 5
Economic matters.
Group 6
Inspection of train logs and investigation of accidents.
Group 7
Military matters.
Section III - Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Service
Chief: Engr Ladislav Sims, technical counselor of
Car Controllers:
Group 1
Car service; program for planning the construction
for technical equipment of cars.
Repair service; technical car service.
of engine sheds and
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Electrical engineering service.
Group 4
Personnel and economic matters.
Group 5
Plzen, Hradec Kralove, Brno,.and Olomouc directorates of state railroads,
purchasing service; Prague Directorate of state railroads, experimental station
for cars and mechanical equipment of the car service.
Section IV - Construction Service
Chief: Engr Ludvik Priebel, technical counselor of the directorate.
Assistant: Engr Konatantin Gaipl, technical counselor.
Construction controllers.
Group I.
Inspection service; operational engineering matters; personnel and economic
matters.
Group 2
Bridges and similar structures; railroad substructure and tunnels.
Group 3
Railroad superstructure; material and inventory.
Group 4
Surface construction.
Group 5
Surveying and real estate.
Group 6
Track adjustments and investment construction.
Section V - Coamunications and Safety Service
Chief: Engr Stepan Strupl, senior technical counselor
Controllers for the communications and safety service.
Group 1
Technical communications service.
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Group 3
Matters concerning personnel; economic matters; matters of the local
administrative offices.
Technical safety service.
Group 2
Section VI - Financial Service
Chief: Josef Hartman, central inspector of the state railroads.
Assistant Chief for the materials service: Josef Vojtlk, senior inspector
of the state railroads.
Controllers for the materials service.
Group 1
Settlement of accounts for the advance salaries of employees.
Group 2
Settlement of accounts of salaries and wages of employees due for past
services, including supplementary service incomes of the employees.
Group 3
Budget; administration of funds: control of other costs; settlement of
accounts with other railroads; financial matters; social security.
Supervision of the management of the station cashiers, offices and of the
financial service of the Directorate of State Railroads.
Group 5
Section VI A - Control of Receipts
Chief: Vit Jasanaky, counselor of the state railroads.
Auditors of the cashier's office.
Group 1
Receipts from the local transportation of passengers, baggage, and express
goads.
Receipts from the local transportation of goods.
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Group 3.
Special accounting.
Group 4
Refunds and damages.
Group 5
Special refunds and damages, Prague Directorate of State Railroads.
Section VII - Personnel Matters
Chief: Dr Zdenek Skalslgr, senior cc nselor of the state railroads.
Director of personnel.
Group 1
General personnel matters; personnel records.
Group 2
Specific personnel matters.
Group 3
Penal personnel matters; protective services.
Section VIII - Social and Cultural Matters
Chief: Dr Karel Rezabek, senior counsellor of the state railroads.
Group 1
Social insurance.
Group 2
Protective social measures in the restricted sense.
Group 3
Supply, housing, and economic welfare.
Group 4
Training measures for the physical and cultural education of employees.
Regional Administration for Matters Relating to the Health Insurance of the
Czechoslovak State Railroads
First Deputy of the Officer in Charge: Dr Karel Strakaty, senior counselor
of the state railroads.
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Regional Health Administration
Chief Physician: Dr P.-antieek Novak, senior health counselor,
Section lx - Legal and Administrative Service
Chief: Dr Cenek Pavlik, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Group 1
General legal matters.
Group 2
Specific and special legal matters.
Group 3
Administrative matters.
Group 4
Auxiliary offices.
Section X - High v Motor Transport
Chief: Engr Vaclav Sasek, technical counselor.
Motor Transport Controllers.
Technical Controller (State Examining Commissioner).
Group 1
Passenger transport matters.
Group 2
Freight transport matters.
Group 3
operational engineering matters.
Group 4
Economy of operation and economy in the use of materials.
Group 5
Control of receipts; financial and accounting matters.
Group 6
Legal and administrative matters.
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Accounting Office
Chief: Vaclav Stastny, central inspector of the state railroads.
Group 1
Machine accounting.
Group 2
Accounting control and special accounting work.
Group 3
Cashier's office of the directorate.
Central Offices for Joint Services
Section A - Central Pension office (Fu)
Chief: Dr Josef Valenta, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Group 1
Legal and administrative matters.
Group 2
Travel insurance; fuel at cost; statistics.
Group 3
Settlement of retirement pay.
Group 4
Settlement of subsistence pay.
Group 5
Settlement for disability and old age benefits, orphans, benefits, etc.
Group 6
Auditing.
Group 7
Accounting office.
Section B - Central Clearing Office (Cu)
Chief: Vaclav Bychtrmoc, sensor +^r.ctor of the state railroads.
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T=euaportation of passengers, baggage, and express goods.
Group 2
Transportation of goods to and from Austria and Germany.
Group 3
Transportation of freight within national and provincial borders.
Group 4
Transportation of goods to and from distant foreign countries.
Group 5
Special accounting.
Group 6
Payments.
Section C - Central Shop Office (DU)
Chief: Engr Vaclav Placatka, senior technical counselor.
workshop Controller.
Group 1
Planning and construction of shops; shop operation; special training or
workshop employees.
Group 2
Work program of the shops; maintenance of vehicles and shop materials.
Group 3
Shop assignments and calculations.
Group 4
Shop construction; maintenance of shop buildings (contact with the local
construction sections of the Directorate of State Railroads); equipi the
workshops with machinery; inventory and tools. P ng
Group 5
Economical consumption of thermal energy; construction of boiler rooms;
electrical engineering matters in the shops.
Peraoiuiel and financial matters.
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Section Dn - Central Purchasing office (RU)
Chief: Engr Erhart Srnka, senior technical counselor of the state railroads.
Group 1
Machinery and machine equipment for the entire service branch, tools a 4
implements used mainly in the car and shop service; sales of. cars and all
scrap material.
Material and equipment for the electrical engineering, safety, signal,
and comm:mications service; spare parts for motor vehicles.
Iron and steel material for the railroad superstructure, bridges, and
structures on land; sleepers and timbers for the railroad superstructure; tele-
graph poles; placing of orders for timber impregnation.
Group 4
Fuels, mineral and vegetable oils, building material, nonferrous metals,
abrasives, other tools, etc.
Group 5
Coal.
Group 6
Legal and financial affairs of the procurement service.
+3ection DP - Central Office for Receiving, Examining and Testing Materials
Chief: Engr Antonin Bohaty, senior departmental counselor of the state
railroads.
Assistant: Engr Ladislav Prochazka, technical counselor of the state rail-
roads.
Material for machine and electrical engineering purposes, supervision of
the receiving of fuels, lubricants, and textiles.
Sleepers and timber for the railroad superstructure; supervision of timber
inpregnation.
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Iron and steel material for the railroad superstructure, bridges, and
surface construction.
Section E - Central Statistical office
Chief: Jaroslav Zajicek,'senior inspector of the state railroads.
Group 1
Hollerith card system.
Group 2
Traffic statistics.
Group 3
Employee statistics.
Group 4
costs Materials, accounting, performance records, and calculation of individual
.
study Commission for the Railway Problems of Metropolitan Prague
Chief: Engr Karel Ramach, senior technical counselor.
Directorate of State Railroads in Brno
Chief ?
Ens Dr Josef Vaverka, senior technical counselor.
Administrative Deputy Chief: Dr J'an Martincik, senior counselor of the
state railroads.
Technical Deputy Chief: Engr Milos Konopasek, departmental counselor.
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Section I
Chief: Dr Ludvik Tvaruzek, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Functions: Commercial service.
Section II
Chief: Engr Karel Zak, senior technical counselor.
Functions: Transport service.
Section III
Chief: Engr Alois Lasek, senior technical counselor of the directorate.
Functions: Machinery service.
Section IV
Chief: Engr Vladimir Tehnik, technical counselor.
Functions: Construction service.
Section V
Chief: Engr Karel Frydek, technical counselor.
Functions: Communications and safety service.
Section VI
Chief: Dr Bohumil Kolar, central inspector of the state railroads.
Functions: Financial service.
Section VT/A
Chief: Augustin Chvatik, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Functions: Control of receipts.
Section '.'II
Chief: Antonin Havelka, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Functions: Personnel matters.
Section VIII
Chief: Frantisek Kamenik, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Functions, Social and cultural matters.
Section IX
Chief: Dr Theodor Toman, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Functions: Legal aid general administrative matters.
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Section X
Chief: Jakub Kozak, central inspector of the state railroads.
Functions: Highway water transport.
Chief: Vaclav Mares, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Directorate of State Railroads at Hradec Kralove
Chief
Dr Jan Rata, president of the Directorate of State Railroads.
Assistant chief for the administrative service: Dr Josef Stary, senior
coamissioner of the state railroads.
Assistant chief for the technical services: Eagr Vladimir Binges, central
counselor of the state railroads.
Regional Installation Council
Chief: Ladislav Hejny.
Section I
Chief: Josef Bares, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Functions: Commercial sex-vice.
Section II
Chief: Frantisek Svoboda, central inspector of the state railroads.
Functions: Transportation service.
Section III
Chief: Engr Adolf Hrbek, senior technical counselor.
Functions: Machinery service.
Section IV
Chief: Engr Josef Volt, technical counselor.
Functions: Cnzstruction service.
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Chief: Engr Miloslav Paul, senior technical counselor.
Functions: Communications and safety service.
Section VI
Chief: Antonin Nyvlt, central inspector of the state railroads.
Functions: Financial service.
Section VI/A
Chief: Jindrich Cernik, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Functions: Control of receipts.
Section VII
Chief: Dr Josef Vivisek, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Functions: Personnel matters.
Section VIII
Chief: Rudolf Kundrt, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Functions: Social and cultural matters.
Affiliates
Regional Health Administration
Chief: Dr Jaroslav Brychta, senior health cou.selor.
Functions: Health matters.
Regional Administration for the Czechoslovak State Railroads Health
Insurance
Chief: Dr Eduard Nebesky, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Section DC
Chief: Dr Vaclav Navratil, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Functions: Legal and administrative service.
Section X
Chief: Dr Frantisek Herman, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Functions: Highway motor transport.
Accounting Office
Chief: Jan Milfait, inspector of the state railroads.
Functions: Accounting and financial service.
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Directorate of State--Railroads, at Plzen
Director
Dr Jaroslav Zahourek, central inspector of the state railroads.
Technic:.. Assistant: Engr Josef Jindrich, gove__.mental counselor.
Administrative Assistant: Jaroslav Vrba, senior counselor of the state
railroads.
Section I - Commercial Service
Chief: Dr Jindrich Treybal, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Deputy: Josef Joachimsthaier, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Section II - Transport Service .
Chief: Josef Liehne, central inspector of the state railroads.
Deputy: Antonin Chmelar, central inspector of the state railroads.
Section III - Machinery Service
Chief: Engr Bohumil Jansky, senior technical counselor.
Deputy: Engr Fraatisek Pohorsky, senior technical counselor.
Section IV - Constiiction Service
Chief: Engx Josef Nejedly, senior technical counselor.
Deputy and assistant for investment matters: Engr Bohuslav Vasa, senior
technical counselor.
Section V - Communications and Oafety Service
Chief: Engr Rudolf Peschke, senior technical counselor.
Deputy: Engr Rudolf Cisar, technical counselor.
Section VI - Financial Services
Chief: Stanislav Mainer, central inspector of the state railroads.
Deputy: Dr Jan Lanka, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Assistant Chief for the Matertale and Supply Service: Bedrich Jilek,
senior inspector of the state railroads.
Section VI/a - Control of Receipts
Chief: Josef Kinberger, central inspector of the state railroads.
Deputy: Alfons Snasel, senior inspector of the state railroads.
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Section VII - Personnel Matters
Chief: Josef Norky II, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Deputy: Dr Josef Vrba, counselor of the state railroads.
Section VIII - Social and Cultural Matters
Chief; Frantisek Mrkvicka, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Deputy: Dr Jan Pliml, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Section IX - Legal and Administrative Service
Chief: Josef Vanourek, senior commissioner of the state railroads
Deputy: Dr Ledialav Petrzik, counselor of the state railroads.
Section X - Highway Motor Transport
Chief: Antonin Strunc, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Deputy: Engr Jaromir Drevo, technical counselor.
Accounting Office
Chief: Bohumil Gotz, inspector of the state railroads.
Cashier: Josef Novacek, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Directorate of State Railroads, at Usti Ned Labem
Presidium
Director: Engr Vladimir Kosice, governmental counselor.
Administrative Assistant: Position vacant.
Technical Assistant: Engr Karel Friedl, senior technical counselor.
Section I - Commercial Service
Chief: Vaclav Steinbach, Senior Counselor of the state railroads.
Section II - Transport Service
Chief: Engr Frantisek Kubik, senior technical counselor.
Section III - Machinery Service
Chief: Engr Hubert Leischner, senior technical commissioner.
Section IV - Construction Service
Chief: Engr Vaclav Koenig, senior technical counselor.
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Section V - Communications and Safety Service
Chief: Engr Vaclav Bezvoda, technical counselor.
Section VI - Financial Service
Chief: Vaclav Cerny, inspector of the state railroads.
Section VI/a - Control of Receipts
Chief: Dr Josef Stuna, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Section VII - Personnel and Health matters
Chief: Vojtech Paul, inspector of the state railroads.
Section VIII - Social and Cultural Matters
Chief: Ludvik Kolar, senior adjutant of the state railroads.
Section IK - Legal and Administrative Matters
Chief: Dr Jan Kopecky, senior counselor of the state railroads.
Section X - Highway Motor Transport
Now being liquidated; functions will be taken over by the state railroad
directorates at Prague, Plzen, and Hradec Kralove.
Accounting Office
Chief: Robert Kolar, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Director
Engr Rudolf Kral, ministerial counselor.
Technical Assistant: Engr Vilem Adamira, senior counselor.
Administrative Adsistant:'Dr Augustin Palest, senior counselor.
Section I - Traffic
Chief: Dr Stanislav Vosahlo, senior counselor.
Deputy: Dr Frantisek Skvaril, senior commissioner.
Section II - Transport
Chief: Josef Dockal, inspector.
Deputy: Bohuslav Pechek, senior inspector.
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Section III - Technical
Chief: Engr Josef Vitek, technical counselor.
Deputy: Engr Vilem Kouril, technical counselor.
Section IV - Construction
Chief: Engr Karel Cvek, senior counselor.
Deputy: E-ngr Vladimir Nechvatal, senior counselor.
Section V - Conmmunications and Safety Service
Chief: Engr Pavel Halavanja, senior counselor.
Section VI - Financial
Chief: Frantisek Srovnal, central inspector.
Deputy: Oldrich Taborsky, senior inspector.
Section VI/A - Financial Control
Chief: Vaclav Janecek, central inspector.
Deputy: Viteaslav Vylicil, inspector.
Section VII - Personnel and Health
Chief: Stanislav Kalabia, senior inspector.
Deputy: Dr Jan Bartos, senior commissioner.
Section VIII - Cultural and Social
Chief: Dr Rudolf Sladecek, senior counselor.
Deputy: Hubert Svabenik, senior assistant.
Section IX - Legal and Administrative
Chief: Emil Weiss, senior counselor.
Deputy: Dr Vaclav Zajic, senior counselor.
Section X - Highway Motor Transport
Chief: Dr Jiri Paska, senior counselor.
Deputy: Engr Stanislav Sikacek, technical counselor.
Accounting Office
Chief: Jiri Stybnar, inspector.
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Directorate of State Railroads, at Bratislava
Director
Benjamin Chladny, inspector of the state railroads.
Administrative Assistant: Jaronir Ambros, senior counselor of the state
railroads.
Technical Assistant: Engr Jan Bzduch, technical counselor.
Section I - Commercial Service
Chief: Alexander Petrovsky, counselor of the state railroads.
Section II - Transport Service
Chief: Ludovit Ocovay, central inspector of the state railroads.
Section III - Machine Service
Chief: Emil Wolf, senior technical counselor.
Section IV - Construction Service
Chief: Engr Anton Maliua, senior technical counselor.
Section V - Communications and Safety Service
Chief: Engr Jozef Schoedi, technical counselor.
Section VI - Financial Service
Chief: Kolo:nan Cerny, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Section VI/A - Control of Receipts
Chief: Julius Pisko, inspector of the state railroads.
Section VII - Personnel and Health Matters
Chief: Dr Anton Petrovic, counselor of the state railroads.
Section VIII - Social and Cultural Matters
Chief: Richard Sborcvy, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Section DC - Legal and Administrative Service
Chief: Position vacant.
Section X - Highway Motor Transport
Chief: Frantisek Pucik, senior adjutant of the state railroads.
Accounting Office
Chief: Ferdinand F.ubina, senior inspector of the state railroads.
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Central Clearing Office
Chief: Vladimir Pzza, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Central Purchase and Sales Office
Chief: Eagr Jozef Luston, technical counselor.
Central Pension Office
Chief: Jan Labanc, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Central Office for the Construction of New Railways in Slovakia
Chief: Engr Jaroslav Vorisek, ministerial counselor.
Directorate of State Railroads, at FCosice
Director
Engr Alexander Derer, ministerial counselor.
Assistant: Dr Andrei Svec, senior counselor.
Presidium
Regional Enterprise Committee
Chairman: Frantisek Oravec, senior assistant of the state railroads.
Employees- Council
Chairman: Michel Ondrus, assistant of the state railroads.
Section 1 - Commercial Service
Chief: Viktor Zustiak, central inspector of the state railroads.
Group 1 - Transport law and general legal matters.
Group 2 - Freight rates.
Group 3 - Passenger and baggage transport; passenger, baggage, and
express rates.
Group 4 - Transportation of freight and express goods; matters relating
to the handling of goods during transportation and to station service.
Group 6 - Special reduction in passenger and freight rates.
Section II - Transport Service
Group 1 - Timetables.
Group 2 - Freight transport and branch line service; traffic direction.
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Group 3 - Matters connected with
port matters in general. and traffi. service; trans-
.
Group 4 - Allocation of railroad care.
Group 5 - Economic maters.
Group 6 - Inspection of train logs and investigation of accidents.
Office of Military Affairs
Chief: Jozef Vyletal, senior inspector.
Section III - Machine Service
Chief: Engr Alexander Vodzins
$V, technical counselor.
Group 1 - Car service.
Group 2 - Repair service (repair shops).
Group 3 - Electrical engineering office.
Group - Technical car service.
Group 5 - Personnel and economic matters.
Section IV - Construction Service
Chief: Engr Vac'-av Cerny, senior technical counselor.
Group 1 - Inspection service; matters connected with transportation;
engineering, personnel, and economic matters.
Group 2 - Railroad roadbed and tunnels.
Group 2/a - BrtHvss and similar structures.
Group 3 - Railroad superstructures; material and inventory.
Group 4 - Surface construction.
Group 5 - Surveying and real estate.
Gro,ip 6 - Track repairs and caves ment construction.
Group 7 - Construction for the highwe.7 motor traffic.
Section V - Communications and Safet Ser~i~~
Chief: Er..gr Frantisel. Obdrzalek, senior technical commissioner.
Group 1 - Technical communications service.
Group 2 - Technical safety service.
Group 3 - Persr.:al and economic matters, and matters connected with
oiteration..
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Section VI - Financial Service
Chief: Ludovit Molitoris, senior inspector of the state railroads.
Group 1 - Settlement of accounts of salaries due in advance.
Group 2 - Settlement of accounts of salaries and wages due for past
services, as well as of supplementary pay for employees.
Group 3 - Budget, administration of funds, and control of other
expenditures.
Group 4 - Settlement of accounts with other railroads; .financial matters
connected with social welfare.
Group 5 - Control of management of station funds and financial service
for the Directorate of State Railroads.
Group 6 - 3upply and materials service.
Section VIa/l - Control of Receipts
Chief: Stefan Madarassi, senic: inspector of the state railroads.
Group 1 - Receipts from the local transportation of passengers,
baggage, and express goods.
Group 2 - Receipts from the local transportation of freight.
Group 3 - Special accounting.
Group 4 - Refunds and damages.
Section VII - Personnel Matters
Chief: Dr Anton Jelencik, senior commissioner of the state railroads.
Group 1 - General personnel matters and personnel records.
Group 2 - Specific personnel matters.
Group 3 - Penal personnel matters and matters connected with the
protective service.
Section VIII - Social and Cultural Matters
Chief: Jozef Solc, inspector of the state, railroads.
Group 1 - Social insurance (benefit payments).
Group 2 - Social welfare in the restricted sense; measures connected
with physical culture; special reductions in passenger and freight rates granted
for social reasons.
Group 3 - Social welfare.
Group 4 - Supply, housing, and economic welfare.
Group 5 - Work relating to the cultural activities of employees.
Group 6 - Schools.
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Regional Health Administration (OZS)
Chief: Dr Vied. Laetovecky, senior health commissioner.
Section IX - Legal and Administrative Service
Chief: Dr Lud. Vvcislik, counselor.of the state railroads.
Group 1 - General legal matters.
Group 2 - Specific legal matters.
Group 4 - Administrative matters.
Group 5 - Auxiliary offices.
Section X - Highway Motor Transport
Chief: Jan Spanko, inspector of the state railroads.
Group 1 - Passenger transport and traffic.
Group 2 - Freight transport and traffic.
Group 3 - Matters connected with transportation engineering.
Group 4 - Econoegr of operation and economical utilization of personnel.
Group 5 - Control of receipts; financial and accounting matters.
Group 6 - Legal and administrative matters.
Accounting Office
Chief: Stefan Bednar, inspector of the state railroads.
Group 1 - Machine accounting.
Group 2 - Control of accountiug and special accounting work.
Group 3 - Cashier of the directorate.
Czechoslovak Navigation Office in Prague
Chief: Engr Kliment Velkoborsky, governmental counselor.
Deputy: Engr Eduard Pekasek, senior technical counselor.
Sections I and II - Construction Engineering Section for Inland and Ocean
Navigation
Chief: Engr Josef'Nedved, technical counselor.
a. Technical Administration Duties
Administration of construction engineering on waterways; measures to
keep waterways in serviceable condition (constant checking of navigation
channels) maintenance of their markings, determination of depths; watching of
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water levels, etc.); administration of construction engineering; regular
maintenance of channels and transloading facilities; records of waterways,
their description and planning; preparation of navigation charts and of plans
for, ports and transshipping facilities; keeping plans and charts up to date,
making changes in them and also in the descriptions.
b. Duties of the Construction Engineering Specialist
Furnishing of statements in connection with setting up navigation
enterprises, especially those concerned with river navigation, including trans-
portation for factories, boat renting, and ferries; specialized construction
engineering duties connected with operating sites (negotiations for land and
water sites and final approval of them); designation of the landing places
(negotiation and proclamation of public ports and transshipping stations and
public and private landing areas and places).
c. Technical Cooperation
Cooperation with the water economy offices in dredging projects
(:edging of rivers, canals, etc.) and also in other projects connected with
naviEation (dams, bridges, etc.); judgments on these projects; studies;
participation in conferences of. the water economy offices, on the regulation
of waterways (operation rules for passenger boats and other installations for
the utilization of waterpower, organization of water situation reports, etc.);
keeping check on the over-all development in the construction and equipping of
waterways; protection of navigation interests in proceedings concerning enter-
prises, the establishment and operation of Which affect waterways, ports, trans-
shipping areas, etc.; cooperation with other sections of the ministry in per-
forming its own functions (especially in regard to the utilization of land and
water areas, technical cooperation, and the maintenance of records).
d. Library Work for the Technical Sections of the Office
General library work; documentary records; corrections.
Section TII - Nautical Transport Section for Inland and High_Seas Navigation
Chief; Bohumil Jares, senior navigation secretary.
a. Operation of the Navigation Service
Operational management of the state-owned shipping for the shipping
service; operational measures on inland waterways and ocean routes, at ports
and transshipping areas (beginning and suspension of shipping service; in-
formation and warning service, including reports on the water situation; move-
ments of shipping; servicing of signals and lights; determining of minimum
number of members for deck and raft crews; maintenance of records on crews
and keeping of documents relating to the crews, especially crew lists; shipping
and maritime books; direction of health and disinfection measures; fire pro-
tection and other safety provisions; maintenance of contact with Czechoslovak
Maritime Consulates; matters concerning skippers and crews, documentation, etc.);
making shipping and shipping facilities available in emergencies (disasters,
especially those caused by the forces of nature, exceptional circumstances, etc.).
b. Navigation Police
Organizational matters, relating to the navigation police corps (organ-
ization, organs, and formations; procurement of equipment, arms, and other
necessities essential for the work of the service); service and procedural
regulations and other regulations governing internal official procedure;
principles pertaining to sphere of authority and perfo_nnance of duties;
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direction of the activities of the navigation police over the '+hole area of its
authority; supreme authority in general and special duties; requests for
assistance to other security formations, especially the military commands
(offices).
c. Training and Schooling of Peck Crews
Cooperation in the preparation of the instruction and specialized
training program for deck crews; supervision of the actual training and matters
connected with it; instruction of deck crew trainees (-qualification of
instructors; special supervision and administrative work relating to training);
boards of examiners in accordance with the regulations governing the training
of deck crews in navigation; other kinds of training to qualify deck crews
for the various grades in inland and maritime navigation; holding of examinations
and issuance of certificates; matters connected with welfare and repatriation.
d. Coordination and Activiti.s of Specialists
Cooperation with other offices in the area of its functions, where such
cooperation in specified by special regulations, and cooperation with other
sections of the office; specialized work at the request of other sections or
offices.
Section IV_- Ship's Machinery and Engineer Section
Chief: Engr Eduard Pekarek, senior technical counselor.
a. Operation of Ships and Machinery
Construction and maintenance of mechanical equipment in ports and
loading areas; construction and maintenance of state-owned shipping of the
navigation service.
b. Works of Technical Administration
Administration of mechanical engineering for waterways, ports, and
transshipping stations; periodic inspections of vessels and floating equipment
in accordance with the regulations regarding their safe use and maintenance;
ship documents pertaining to the use of vessels and floating equipment and
their propulsion, and other machinery insta lation;; certification of documents
issued t;r st?cialized institutions: control of construction programs of the
state shipping enterprises and supervision of the actual shipbuilding carried
on by these enterprises; inquiries into the state of the chipping enterprises,
shipping; technical supervision of the shipyards; keeping of records on the
number of vessels engaged in river navigation; registration of maritime shipping
and maintenance of records.
c. Functions of the Shipping and Machinery Expert
Ex t reportsconcerning the establishment of enterprises, including
transportation for factories, boat renting, and ferries; expert matters con-
cerning ships and machinery of shipping establishments.
d. Training and Education of the Engineering Crews
Cooperation in the preparation of educational supervision and of the
program of expert training for the engineering crews; supervision of training
and related. :natters; training of apprentices of the engineering crews in
connection with the training of the deck crews; board of examiners in accordance
with the regu:-,tion.s concerning the naviga;ioa training with regard to engineering
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crews; training of various grades of engineering crews for river and maritime
shipping; examinations and issuance of certificates; matters of assistance,
especially to the juvenile trainees of engineering crews; supervision of the
engineering crews concerning river and maritime shipping; determining the
minimum number of members of engineering crews.
e. Telephone Service
Cooperation in establishment of telephone lines of the shipping service;
technical and operational administration of the telephone lines of the shipping
service.
f. Technical Cooperation
Cooperation with other offices, especially offices for utilization of
water, in evaluating the reports by experts on the projectz4 for equipping water-
ways, ports, and transshipping stations; cooperation with other sections of the
office, especially regardinU the training and education of their recruits and
other personnel; cooperation in issuance of documents for crews and in the
execution of transshipping operations.
Section V - Financial and Rates
Chief: Dr Jirdrich Loschner, senior counselor of the shipping service.
a. Economic Administration:
Transshipping performed by the shipping administration and related
matters; utilization of transshipping and. commercial facilities of ports and
transshipping stations; utilization of the land area in public ports and public
reloading stations for commercial purposes.
b. Tariff Control
Taxes and fees for the use of public ports and transshipping stations
and control over their assessment and collection; supervision of payment of
the assessed charges; other matters pertaining to shipping rates; records of
shipping taxes, fees, and charges and their maintenance on a current basis,
and analogous functions concerning the tariffs of other related transportation
sectors; checking on the interrelations and influences of the rates of other
transportation sectors and other loads placed on shipping facilities.
c. Obligatory Investigations
Evaluation and reports on the results of state and enterprise shipping
operations; subsidies of 'shipping; ascertain-nent of the financial and commercial
data essential for the construction and equipment of waterways, ports, and
transshipping stations; economic statistics.
d. Technical' Cooperation
Cooperation with other offices concerning; th, regulation of relations
between various sectors of transportation; the external, conditi,xs of shipping;
and the tariff, reloading, and transport regulations of foreign countries,
especially in cases where such cooperation is necessary in view of contact
between Czechoslovak and foreign shipping; cooperation with the other sections
of the office; especially concerning transportation and transshipping.
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Section VI - Commercial
Chief: Dr Vaclav Vsetecka, governmental counselor.
a. Commercial Matters
Licensing of shipping enterprises for inland shipping, approval of
commercial working places, transportation regulations, service rules for
employees, and other commercial-legal matters; cooperation with the Chambers
of Commerce and with the Central Union of Transport in matters of shipping;
checking on economic results of shipping enterprises; protection of the
interests of water. transport; coordination of water transport with other
means of transportation; recognition of the Czechoslovak flag rights; issuance
of shipping certificates and other legal-administrative functions connected
with maritime shipping;, cooperation with the Office of Maritime Shipping
Register; liaison with the Czechoslovak consulates charged with maritime
functions.
In. General Administrative and Legal Functions
Selection of sites for landing areas and designation of public ports
and transshipping stations; exercise of penal Jurisdiction, insofar as it
belongs to shipping offices, for inland and maritime shipping; matters of taxes
and fees connected with the building and areas under the shipping administration;
private legal matters, particularly contracts (rent, lease, and other contracts)
and legal cooperation in making contracts dealing with state purchases and
labor; informatics for the government's attorney's office in law suits; other
legal-administrative matters and questions under the shipping administration.
c. Technical Cooperation
Cooperation with other offices in protection and assertion of the
general right of shipping to use waters as against other rights and ways of
using them and other related matters; cooperation with the customs administra-
tion in matters of shipping customs; cooperation with the h-~alth, security,
fire, and other general regulations of water transport; cooperation with the
national committees in matters concerning the penal code for river navigation.;
keeping records on the regulations of foreign shipping administrations;
cooperation with other sections of -the' office; basic rule' concerning the work.
of the shipping pclice; directives for the shipping polio- and supervision of
their work;. standardizing and organizing the training and specialized education
of apprentices as well as higher training; measures taken by the shipping
administration in carrying out health, security, fire, end other regulations
in shipping matters; legal matters concerning the training and education of
shipping personnel of the shipping administration; legal cooperation in other
matters within the limits of its authority.
d. Legal Library
General library work; records; collection and classification of the
domestic and 'foreign statutes relating to shipping matters.
Section VII - Administration
Chief: The chief of the Shipping Office is temporarily in charge.
a. Personnel Affairs
H.ring of employees on contract basis and for a daily wage; personnel
registers; records and reports concerning employees; e"aluation of military
service and other military matters concerning personnel in gereral; training
and discipline- maters.
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b. Internal Economic Administration
shi Budget and allocation of budgetary appropriations; inventory of the
shipping administration; uniforms and workelothes; lining quarters in the
building of the shipping administration.
c. Other Internal Administration Matters
Administrative norms, circulars and survey of circulars; time limits;
contact with offices and individuals; internal service orders and regulations;
contact with the Employees, Council.
Accounting Office
Chief: Vaclav Roskota, senior accounting secretary.
a. CredLt, Remittance, and Cashier Service
Maintenance of the main accounting records, accounting books, payments,
deposit books; installments, budgetary affairs, settlement of personnel salaries;
assessments and periodic and individual material payments; checking accounts;
control of documents, balance sheets, and statistics; carrying out of die-
bursements; cooperation in matters of the personnel insurance, deposits,
administrative deductions, and the current credit and assessment s.-rvice;
organization of the collecting service.
b. Examining and Control Service
Cooperation in budgetary matters and the allocation of credits; control
of income and disbursement accounts of the offices on lower level.; supervision
of the work of the accounting and cashier service; audits of the ;hipping enter-
prises and organizations supported by the government.
c. Technical Cooperation
Uniform organization of the inventory of the shipping administration
with the assistance of special organs, and supervision of its correct execution
in the individual sections; collaboration in determining taxes and foes in the
ports and transshipping stations for the use of their establishme te; proposals
for the organization of the accounting and cashier service, for it rentory records
and the sale of printed materials; administration of the Plv,.bo1 V-a
Shipping Herald; cooperation in budget udget work; records of debtors' accounts;
preparatory work on determining and collecting debts; accounting examination
of purchases and approbation proceedings carried out by the office or its
building control administration.
Section VIII_:* Administration Office
Chief: Marta Jarosova, senior administrative official.
a. Administrative Office Duties Proper
Registration of documents; card indexes; records of the numbers of
letters sent from the outside and of other recordable fevAures; distribution
of mail; delivery by mail or by courier; recording of documents for the office
and for outside parties; register. .
b. Internal Economic Administration
Inventory of office equipment; distribution of the Plavebni Vestnik;
petty cash.
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Messenger service; services for the office and employees; delivery
service.
Shipping Safety Inspection
Chief: Eugr Frantisek Hanus, senior technical counselor.
a. Supervisory Activity
Permanent control over all establishments for the protection of the
life and health'of the employees in the shipping enterprises; performance of
shipping safety inspection with regard to the recruitment of manpower; or(yni.-
zation of the manpower supply; regulation of labor relations and wage arrange-
ments, and protection of domestic working places against foreigners; performance
of control tasks with regard to social welfare in shipping, especially care for
juvenile trainees in collaboration with other social institutions and establish-
ments.
Expert activities within the jurisdiction of the shipping office
concerning the shipping establishments; expert statements concerning the equip-
ment of ports, transshipping places, and landing places) as well as of the
private ports with regard to the protection of the life and health of the
employees; technical statements concerning equipment for the protection of
persons using the shipping establishments, and concerning establishments for
the prevention of accidents and protection of health against disease;
examination of the drafts of shipping norms from the point of view of shipping
safety inspection; examination of proposals for the amendment of norme from
the point of view of labor safety and social welfare in shipping.
c. Obligatory Investigations and Studies
Periodic reports on the state of the protection of labor and social
welfare in shipping; studies of labor safety and social institutions abroad,
especially in cases where Czechoslovak shipping is in contact with a foreign
country.
Subordinate Offices
1. The River Shipping Office for the Elbe River Area in Prague
Chief: Engr Frantisek Hanus, senior technical counselor.
Subordinate Harbor Authorities
State-Administration of the Harbor in Holesovice
Manager: Josef Cepelak, senior shipping controller.
Deputy: Josef Havlik, shipping inspector.
State Administration of the Harbor in Prague - Smichov:
Chief: Vaclav Hubacek, shipping administrator.
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State Administration of the Harbor in Melnik:
Cbef: Vaclav Soukup, senior shipping official.
2. Branch Office of the River Shipping Office for the Elbe Area in Usti nad Labem
At present called Czechoslovak Shipping Office. The regional administration
is in Usti nad Labem.
Chief of the office: Engr Bohumil?Brandejs, senior technical commissar.
State Administration of Harbors in Usti nad Labem
Manager: Antonin Kral, senior shipping official.
State Administration Harbor in Decin:
Manager: Jan Krabec, shipping administrator.
Branch Office of the Czechoslovak Shi i Office for the Morava River Area,
Uhsrg Ostroh
The Shipping Police at the Vrenov nad Dyii Dam
Directorate for the Construction of Waterways, in Prague
The f:nu -ions of the Directorate are the construction of waterways and
related utilization of waterpower and the completion of the state express;high-
way. The Directbrate is subordinate to the Ministry of Technology.
Office Chief: Engr Jan Rosik, Ministerial Counselor
Group I - General Matters
Chief: Engr Rene Benda, governmental counselor.
Group II - Legal Matters
Chief: Dr Milos Ulebla, governmental counselor.
Group III - Navigability and Improvement of Rivers
Chief: Engr Vladimir Mach, senior technical counselor.
Croup IV - Utilization of Waterpower
Chief: Engr Slavomir Davidek, technical counselor.
Group V - Canals and Ports
Chief: Engr Vaclav Typolt, senior technical counselor.
Group VI - Land Survey
Chief: Engr Jan Svec, senior surveying counselor.
Group VII - Completion of the State Express Highway
Chief: Engr Frantisek Reif, senior technical- counselor.
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Auxiliary Offices (Documents Office, Dispatching Office, and Economic Office)
Chief: Rudolf Koten, senior office administrator.
The groups are divided into sections and offices to which branch construction
administrations and locks and dam administrat.'?_ons are subordinate.
Chief: Josef Cerny, accounting director.
Accounting Office
Functions: Civil air transportation.
Chief: Brig Can Alois Kubita, general director.
I. Commercial Section
Manager (first deputy of the general director): position vacant.
Financial Section
Air Freight Dispatching Office
II. Technical Section
Manager (second deputy of the general manager): Engr 0, Buzicka.
III. Operational Section
Chief (third deputy of the genera? m._.ger): position vacant.
Functions: Air transportation.
Subordinate to the directorate: Air Direction-Finding Station.
Cedok, Czechoslovak Travel and Transport Office, in Prague
Branch offices are located in the following places:
Bratislava, Brno, Ostrava, Kosice, Banska Bystrica, Zilina, Usti nad Labem,
Plzen, Liberec, Hradec Kralove, Olomouc, Karlovy Vary, Marianske Lazne, Frantiskovy
Lazne, Jablonec nad Ninon, Luhacovice, Stary Smokovec, Nitra, Pistany, Presov,
and Lazne Podebrady.
The foreign branch office is in London.
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Prague Steamship Company Ltd, in Prague
Administrative units according to company regulations:
a. Administrative Council.
b. Plenary Group.
c. Auditors.
Functions (common for all offices): Passenger transport and small cargo
transport on the following lines; Prague-Stechovice, Podebrady-Kolin, Usti nad
Labem-Hrensko.
Airmen's Federation of the ezechoslo-sak Republic in Prague
Functions: Expert and social center of all active fliers of the Czechoslovak
Republic, with its own statutes and central offices; contact with fliers living
outside Prague through the branch offices of the Airmen's Federation of the
Czechoslovak Republic.
Automobile Club of the Czechoslovak Republic, in Prague
Chairman of the club: Army Gen Ludvik Svoboda, Minister of National Defense.
Chairman of the Provincial Automobile Club in Bohemian Dr Alois Neuman,
Minister of Posts.
Chairman of the Provincial Automobile Club in Moravia; Josef Slams.,
counselor of the Chamber of Commerce, Olomouc.
Functions: Highest organization of. Czechoslovak motorists, with 60,000
members organized in 263 local branches. Service to the members is supplied
by 13 regional secretariats. The club issues international travel documents,
maps, annual reviews, guides, itineraries, the magazines Auto and Svet motoru
technical and training manuals and aids. It conducts technical inspections
of cars, gives driving lessons, organizes campaigns to foster safe driving, and
sponsors sport enterprises, competitions, and races of cars and motorcycles. It
furnishes legal advice and protection to members, sets up tourist travel plans,
and takes care of accommodations in hotels and garages for its members throughout
the whole country. It organizes social enterprises, lectures, and motion
pictures, and takes effective steps for the protection of Czechoslovak motoring.
The Danube-Oder Canal Company, in Prague
Secretary-General: Dr Frantisek Kacirek.
Chairman:. Fngr Bedrich Spacil.
Functions: Advancing the Danube-Oder Canal project, including the
neighboring rivers, in agreement and collaboration with the representatives
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of public and private interests; cooperation in the investigations and
elaboration of basic documents relating to the preparation, realization,
op ration, and financing of the Danube-Oder Canal as well as of the other
neighboring rivers in accordance with existing law, with the objective of
preparing a final project for the canal and securing its realization and
operation; publication of the periodical P3tvebni Casty Duna1-Odra-Labe
(Danube-Oder-Elbe Waterways) six times a year; publication of nonpeiiod3.c
works on the various sections of the canal project.
State Meteorological Institute, in Prague
Central Observatory
Section IV - Synoptic and Aircraft Meteorological Service
The task of the State Meteorological Office is to furnish information on
the current weather situation; issue weather forecasts; make air transport
safe; examine the higher layers of the atmosphere; work out and publish data
on the climate of the Czechoslovak Republic; furnish information on the weather
in the past; observe the influence of the weather on plant life and ascertain
the optimum conditions for the successful development of agricultural production;
study the interconnection of the weather and human health; examine the suit-
ability of places proposed as recreation centers, etc.; carry out bioclimatic
research for planning; maintain a central observatory; examine, improve, and
build meteorological apparatus; verify height records of aircraft; carry on
documentation and maintain a special library; cooperate with foreigz. countries,
and develop activities in the public interest.
Directorate
Director: Docent Alois Gregor.
Section I - Climatology
Cbitf: Dr Pavel Hriibes.
Functions: Administration of-an extensive network of meteorological
stations and evaluation of the results of their observations; b^th monthly and
annual reviews for scientific purposes (the climatography of Czechoslovakia);
information concerning the weather at a particular time and place upon the re-
quest of courts, attorneys, insurance institutions, and private persons.
Climatic 3tatlitice and statements are not only essential for natural science
research in the Czechoslovak Republic but are also indispensable for work in
technical fields, for example, regional planning, planning in the fields of
construction, water economy, agriculture, settlement, insurance, etc.
Section II - Agricultural Meteorology and Phenology
Chief: Engr Vojtech Lerner.
Functions. Studies of various problems of plsants involving climate. In
the section laboratory new methods for measuring light, temperature, and
humidity are tested and suitable apparatus constructed. The influence of the
weather on the growth of cultivated plants and the progress of agricultural
works are observed. The reports of observers are expertly processed and,
published. The section organizes the local forecasting of night frosts during
the growing period and disseminates information on appropriate measures for
the protection of cultivated plants. In the field of phenology, the section,
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with the assistance of an extensive network of voluntary Observers, checks the
various stages of develop-at in plant life (germination, flowering, ripening
of fruit, dropping of leaves, etc.). The results of these observations are
published in annual phenological reviews and maps, as a basis for the deter-
mination of natural agricultural production regions, for planning plant Pro_
ductio
in in agriculture, for the selection Of suitable plant varieties, and for
various kinds of scientific agricultural work, etc.
Section III - Bioclimatology and Spa Meteorology
Chief: Dr Vladimir Struzka.
Functions: Administration of a network of bioclimatic stations at the spas
and health institutions; the influence of weather on healthy and sick human
beings; cooperation in planning recreation and health enterprises and c i
town, and regional construction work. The section has worked out a method community,
for study of local climate and the bioclimatic value of individual pieces of
land. The section laboratory works on the improvement of apparatus for
ascertaining certain bloclimatic elements.
Section IV - Synoptic and Aircraft Weather Service
Chief: Dr Antonin Vesely.
Functions: Adds to the safety of civil and military air transport by
furnishing information on the weather along air routes and at airfields. It
furnishes this information to crews before take-offs and during flights, together
with weather forecasts, to airport managements, to local and regional air
control centers, and to the representatives of air companies. It also issues
weather reports, surveys, and forecasts through medium of the press and radio
on the basis of so-called synoptic weather charts which are drafted four times
a day from observations from all of Europe and adjacent region;. Reports on
these observations are received by radiotelegraph and teletype.
Section V - Apparatus, Testing Laboratories, and Central Observatory
Installa:Lons: testing laboratories, precisf.on mechnnice wcrk hr p,
apparatus and material storehouse in. the build-tog of' the State Mete:n ol.ogica.i
Institute.
Chief: Dr Ferdinand Kocourek.
Functions: Procurement, testing, and repair of apparatus essential for
the weather service in the State Meteorological Institute,a workshop; testing
and calibration of meteorological instruments for. individual s, on request;
administration of the institutela observatory and supervision of other
observatories, mainly those in the mountain..
Section VT - T.ihran, Publications, air'. Documentation Service,
Chief: Dr Emil Vesely.
Offices
Personnel
Officer in charge: Dr Pavel Hrubes.
Budget and Accounting
Officer in charge: Jan Hrdy, senior controller.
Economic Administration
Officer in charge: Jan Hrdy, senior controller.
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/25 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700100017-0