Ministerstvo zemědělství I - sekretariát protektorátních ministrů, Praha

The Czechoslovak Ministry of Agriculture was founded shortly after the independence of the new state from Austria-Hungary in autumn 1918. After the German occupation of the country the highest position in the Ministry of Agriculture were occupied by members of the German administration. Ministers of Agriculture in the Protectorate Gouvernment were from 1939 to 1940 Ladislav Karel Feierabend, shortly Jaroslav Krejčí, from 1940 to 1942 Mikuláš z Bubna-Litic and from 1942 to 1945 Adolf Hrubý. The fonds consists of the correspondence of the Ministers of Agriculture in the years of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia and a re covering the fields Agriculture, occupation, chambers of agriculture, agricultural labor, taxation, agricultural cooperatives, hunting, hop growing and agricultural statistics. Holocaust relevant material consists mainly out of documents about Aryanization of Jewish property in Agriculture and the exclusion of the Jewish population from specific agricultural products. The finding aid 418 of the National archives in Czech is online available: http://www.badatelna.eu/fond/4665/