Pozemkový úřad pro Čechy a Moravu, Praha

The files document the resettlement of extensive areas designated for German military training grounds, as well as selected areas prepared for German colonists. Jewish property, as well as lands and buildings of imprisoned or convicted persons, also came under the forced administration of the Land Office and were subsequently offered to resettlers and German immigrants. Land intended for German settlement was managed by the Czecho-Moravian Agricultural Company in Prague. Maps and plans illustrate specific German colonization projects, such as examples of new settlements in the Mladá Boleslav region. Regarding specific subjects, for example: inventories of Jewish estates and farmsteads under 5 hectares from the districts of Oberlandrat Prague, Tábor, Kolín (box 422); clearance of Jewish apartments in Neveklov, Benešov, and Vrchotovy Janovice (box 1528); small Jewish agricultural properties in the regional offices of Prague, České Budějovice, Hradec Králové, Plzeň, Brno, Olomouc (box 1555); lists of furniture and household equipment from Jewish property handed over by the regional office in Brno to various institutions (box 1661); lists of securities and other valuables belonging to Jews (box 1794). By Government Regulation No. 241/1942 Coll. of April 24, 1942, the Land Office for Bohemia and Moravia (Bodenamt für Böhmen und Mähren) was established with its seat in Prague. It assumed the functions of the IX Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, whose organizational structure it also adopted, as well as other ministerial responsibilities in matters of land transactions, particularly the management and supervision of agricultural enterprises and the adjustment of certain conditions in agricultural leases. The leadership of the Land Office was entrusted to Ferdinand Fischer, the commissioner head of the IX Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, who reported directly to the Reich Protector. Based on Government Regulation No. 255/1942 Coll., the Land Office also gained authority over the administration of state forests and estates. Its competencies included, in particular, the expropriation of land necessary for the establishment of military training grounds within the Protectorate and the imposition of forced administration on agricultural and forestry enterprises in the so-called public interest. Six regional offices were subordinate administrative units of the Land Office. The Land Office for Bohemia and Moravia was abolished in May 1945, when its operational and filing organization was taken over by the State Land Office.