ECONOMIC; POLITICAL - ORGANIZATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700210133-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 29
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 133
• Publication Date: March 14, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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MAR 1952
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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OP. RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
CLASSIFICATM~N RESSPRICTED
SECDF?ITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT t1
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Economic; Political - Organization
HOW
PUBLISHED
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DATE OF
INFORMATION Probably
1947 - 1948
DATE DfST!y Mar 1953
WHERE
PUBLISHED Not indicated; probably Prague
DATE
PUBLISHED Not indicated; probably early 1949
ORGANIZATION OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK GOVERNMENT:
MINISTRY OF INTERNAL TRADE
The following is the organization of the Ministry of Internal Trade and sub..
ordinate units.
Minister
Frantisek Krajcir.
Cabinet of the Minister
Chief: Dr Vladimir Sedlak
Personal Secretary: Gustav Bock.
Functions: Personnel matters concerning the min.st~r; matters concerning
the functions of a member of the government, and of parliamentary committees and,
Parliament itself; interpellations and interventions; supervision of the con-
struction program; Slovak affairs of a basic nature.
Presidium
Chief; Dr Robert Madr.
Deputy: Ladislav Lisec.
Section P/1 - Budget
Chief: Zdenek Dolansky.
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Functions: General matters of the state budget; working out and compiling
the ministry's budget; supervising the management of budgetary funds; coopera-
tion in financial measures; maintaining liaison with the Supreme Accounting Of-
f ice and the Ministry of Finance; handing down opinions in financial and budg-
etary matters; cooperating with the Commission for Industry and Trade in setting
up the Slovak budget; travel expenses, moving expenses, separation pay, renumera-
tion fc: temporarily assigned employees, and compensati.on for such things as
daily travel expenses, etc.
Section P/2 - Economic Matters
Functions: All matters connected with official visits or public statements;
representing the ministry at congresses, conventions, or conferences, and all
honorary duties of the minister or of the ministry; all economic matters; the
administration of buildings, housing, and equipment for the ministry; procure-
ment of all office supplies; uniforms; leases and service apartments for offi-
cials, including the official home of the minister; limousines, drivers, and
travel orders; keeping a check on all trips undertaken; cash allowances for em-
ployees' lunches; supervision of the economic administration of the ministry.
Section P/3 - Organization
Functions: General administrative matters, general organizationaL ques-
tions, internal organization of the ministry; settling jurisdictional disputes
between various departments of tie ministry; local administration of small 'usi-
ness; chambers of business and commerce; supervising the Central Federation of
Commerce and other organizations; cooperation in the nomination of commercial.
counselors, lay judges, a..d legal experts; carrying out governmental control of
commercial companies and others subordinate to. the ministry; nominating represen-
tatives of the ministry to commissions. board e,economic cooperatives, institutions,
etc., and nominating liaison officials in conjunction with other offices; granting
honorary diplomas, as well as other forms of recognition to deserving tradesmen
and commercial employees; participating in legislative work in matters connected
with the organization of public administration and self-government of economic
enterprises; classification of official lobe; supervision of all work undertaken;
office hours and visi-.s; office procedure and official. proceedings of the minis-
try; cultural welfare of employees of the ministry; language courses; apartments
in state housing projects; matters concerning the employee council and the ope-
rational committees of the ministry; work brigades; recommendations for the is-
suanc, of naaannrta; all matti.ra +ha+ An not fall under the Juriadictioti of any
other branch or sectior, of the ministry. y
Section P/4 - Personnel
Functions: Personnel matters concerning employees of the ministry; salaries
and transfers of employees from other agencies; disposition of ell employees of
the ministry; disciplinary proceedings; qualifications; financiel aid to em-
ployeescf the ministry; all matters of a secret or confidential nature; coopera-
tion ir proceedings designed to systematize official positions and apply norms
to them; supervision of the presidium office and management of auxiliary offices.
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Function; Checking legality of proposed laws, governmental decrees, and
announcements of the ministry; processing of all proposals made by central of-
fices or by members of the National Assembly, in matters of legislation; coopera-
tion in the work on international legal questions within the jurisdiction of
the ministry; checking all legislative and judicial acts and decisions, as well
as legal literature; checking activity of the government and communicating its
decisions to the appropriate departments and sections; legislative archives.
Section P/6 - Infornation and Press
Functions: Propaganda and information activities; liaison with the press,
radio, and the motion-picture industry, collecting, organizing, and supplying
news for the press and radio concerning the work of the ministry; supervising
the library and the reading room; procurement and distribution of official news-
papers.
Library and Reading Room
Librarian: Miroslav Safarik.
Ministry Accounting Office
Chief: Frantisek Stula.
Presidium Office
Chief: Josef Petr.
Economic Administration
Chief: Jaroolav Kohoutek.
Administration of Office Services
Chief: Antonin Plicka.
Department I - Legal DeLartment for Small Business
Chief: Frantisek Wunsch.
let Deputy- Dr Viktor Fiker, for sections I/l end I;:
2d De f.rt.y; Dr Leopold Heyrovsky, fur section: 1/11 to 1/5.
Section I/1
Chief: Dr Eduard Sochor_
Functions: Settlement of general legal questions connected with small-busi-.
ner?s law and its interpretation (with the exception of Part VII of the Small-
Business Regulations); preparation and processing of auggr.st.'.ons concerning pro-
posed legislation submitted by autonomous economic organizations; the prepara-
tion of legislative bills, governmental decreer, and regulatiorc, and announce-
ments by the ministry in all matters of small-business law; small business rec?-
oras (small-business land register).
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Functions: Commercial trades, agencies, traveling salesmen, and door-to-
door trades.
Section 1/3
Functions: Licensed trades; transportation; radio licenses; licenses to
operate public warehouses.
Functions: Economic and tax advisers, auditors, and enterprise organizers;
supervision of their work; management of enterprises, including their accounts,
calculations, budget, etc.,; carrying out provisions of governmental decrees con-
cerning dividends and general profits; inspection of stock companies and those
with. limited liability, to be performed with the help of Section I1/4 of the
ministry.
Section 1/5
Functions: Questions connected with general problems of business improve-
ment and its organization (autonomous state institutions for business improve-
ment); the study of technical conditions in business enterprises; specialized
promotion services; assistance in technical education; educational and economic
aid to small business and young people in small business; legal, organizations!,
and administrative matters concerning apprentices; establishing examinations for
the title of master; suprrvision of chambers of commerce and small business in
matters concerning apprentices; supplying expert economic advice to other de-
partments of the ministry; publicity for small business (by means of expositions,
contests, trade publications, broadcasts, and movies).
Department II - Corporation, H::.:ine:,e Law, Protection of Commercial Proprietary
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Chief: Dr Celestyn Cermak.
1st Deputy: Dr M-reslav Karasek, for sections 11/1 to II/4.
2nd Deputy- Dr Premysl Ceraak, for sections 11/5 to 11/7.
Section II/l
chief: Dr Otakar Kraus.
Functions: Cooperative matters, matters dealing with all or many branches
of cooperative organizations; central councils of cooperatives; settling disputes
concerning me-9bership of cooperatives lr specialized cooperative federations;
preparation of cooperative norm regulations and memoritndu; -4t-;dying and publi-
cizing the cooperative movement and following fore.gn. cooperative movements;
matters concerning new or mixed-type cooperatives:
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Chief- Dr Miroslav Karasek.
Functions: Cor..;umer cooperatives; establishment of new consumer coopera-
tives or sales outlets; merging of consumer cooperatives and transfer of their
establishments; reactivation of consumer cooperatives and their sales outlets
which were closed during the German occupation; participation in decisions on
assigning confiscated property to consumer cooperatives, and providing loans to
consumer cooperatives; supervision of the Federation of Consumer Cooperatives;
cooperating with Department I in assigning licenses to consumer cooperatives.
Functions: Trade cooperatives; setting up on new commercial cooperatives
or sales outlets; mergers of commercial cooperatives and the transfer of their
establishments; reactivation of commercial cooperatives and their sales outlets
which were closedduring the German occupation; participation in decisions assigning
conf~Lscatea proper Lc to commercial Lcoperatives, and providing loans and guaran-
tee3 to them, supervision of the Federation of General Cooperatives; cooperation
with Department I in assigning licenses to commercial ce_)peratives,
Functions Commercial law associations; temporary and final authorizations
to establish joint?,utock companies; approval of the charters or joint-stock com-
panies an well as .changes in them such as increasing or diminishing the number
of shares or the capital involved; merging of joint-stock companies, or the ad-
mittance into such mergers of foreign companies carrying on commercial activities
on Czechoslovak territory; granting permission for the incorporation of limited
companies into the comm_rcial register, ind increases in their basic capita].;
permitting other changes in partnership deeds, such as changes in the object of
undertaking of firms or companies, lowering their share capital, and other oranges
:lash fall under the jurisdiction of ',he ministry.
Functions Protection of commercial proprietary r sits; preparation of
1eggal.ncrr9 in matters of commercial proprietary rightc,rprotection agatnst un-
fair comp,etit_c pret?ection of firms arid names; protection againeit _ub-
stitute products, cooperatinr_. witb the appropriate authorities to cases con-
c-._nin@ oatenl, 'e:. author = or put,llsu._._ .i copyrights_ de:._i.Or,s in d.: .,u :es
c r?: eroifF tr'ad ma: K?
Fan::t _,c-nn "Tsti.ona; -f pro .~dinge in trade-mark
mattr.rc it local _sambers of .ommer:?: ar.d :mall :,uc.ine:ss, .-oral re.g,ster of
a?., n,itl final ti ade -mewkr? , con tr,.'L o_' all teen for prr?t :,c z_ _ t rack marks ; in 5U ?
ing s;arnangs ? cs'din to t... Tr,,d: -Mark Law, putLIrinC -ne stredni vestniic
GC.ti'.ranny'c n ;',name?: (Centxal l'.ir 1.1 ect'i t ?r Cit!'.ctiv4 Trade !ar '.c. }
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Section 11/7
Functions: international trade mark:; and patent=d mcdels; a central regis-
ter of all international bade-marks and patented mcdelr?; liaison with tnc Inter-
national Office- forthe: Protection of Commercial. Property in Bern and with regis-
tration cfficet in foreign countries; records of foreign legal. regulations about
commercial property and informatics on this subject; preparation for discussing
and ratifying international commercial agreements on proprietary rights.
Depai tmer.?t III -? Planning and Research
Chief: Dr Karel. Malecek,
Deputy: Engr Ludvik Spirk,
Section 1I_T/1
Chief. Alfred Killian.
Functions General questions concerning the nr,ional economy; planning
over-all distribution policies; follcwiig the world economy; study of long-term
planning abroad, with special emphasis or, conditions and type of economy preva-
lent; controlling the preparation and execution of the F ve?-Year Plan insofar as
it concerns the ministry; planning the work of the department and its coordina-
tion; coordination of planning and study activities; Institute for Internal
Trade; matters of jurisdiction; ntattst.i.cs with respect to internal trade; trac-
ing current development of the distrioution network and conditions within enter-
prises themselves, and the planning of structural changes.
Functions: Propocing the budget (in cooperation with appropriate sections
of the ministry); coordinating consumption needs wit- production capacity and
the requirements of foreign trade; providing detailed plans for sales; tracing
quantitative and qualitative changes occurring In distribution; controlling the
fulfillment of the budget, a; well as analysis and ..valuation of actual consump??
Lion.
Functions. Planning _onstru,.t:cn ann nnnconstracticn investments; liaison
with to Constru,.tion and Investment C,mc:i fsion of t..a entral Planning Commis-
sir.:; and a:. .. re N?nistry of Technc]?.gy, fun;ttcrs dealing with r