ORGANIZATION OF THE CZECHOSLOVAK MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY

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March 4, 1952
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for WHERE PUBLISHED Prague DATE PUBLISHED May 1948 LANGUAGE Czech DATE OF INFORMATION 1948 PUBLISHED Book DATE DIST. If /~a-t 1952 COUNTRY Czechoslovakia SUBJECT Political - Government organization HOW Economic - Ministry of Industry INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS C 4F!`IfR yi iyn CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY R CLASSIFICATION Lift Uat UN d Nlp SMUplf tofu.. l'TMUAT.. u/IpU1 TUC p1TOIK UUR..U or TIp flfl p}JTIJ tHEN t t UUlI.. or IlTOUa AR R p. p. c_ pt A....... 51,111. ITI TiMOtlfp,op OU IDp Ofsunop iiimpii ui ~ USMCivmoi or niplp ICn iS FOOJIS?IOY. ~p P.O. Address: Prag??s I, Na Frantisku 1039 Minister of Industry. Augustin Kliment Cabinet of the Minister of industry Chief: Vladimir Meissner Eccurn..c secretary and deputy chief: Dr Josef Sadek Personal secretary: Jiri Stepanovsky Parliamentary secretary: Dr Ladislav Jirasek Official liaison: Karel Javurek Functions: Functions of the minister, political affairs,, contact with the parties of the National Front, with the government and parliament, official 1 la Lson. Chief: Engr Imrich Alth Deputy: Dr Dusan Palka NO. OF PAGES 18 SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION Oraanisace Ceekoslovenskeho Statniho Zrizeni. ORGANI TZON OF THE C ECNOSLOVAK MINZS y O INDUSTRY This report presents data on organization, personnel, and func- tions of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Industry, from a series of ou'..lines of Czechoslovak ministries in the book Organisace Cesko- slovenskeho Statniho Zrizeni (Organization of Czechoslovak State Administration . Functions: Liaison organ between the Ministry of Industry and the Slovak Com- mission for Industry and Commerce. FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY STATE ARMY NAVY AIR Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 STAT Chief: Dr Vilem Pithart Deputy: Frantisek Mencik Group I. Personnel Chief: Frantisek Mencik Deputy: Emanuel Joda3 Functions: Personnel affairs of the Ministry of Industry and of subordi- nate offices. General personnel affairs. Government decrees concerning Personnel matters. Social welfare and medical care of employees;' leave. personnel records. Section P 1/2 Chief: Jan Hejnu Functions: Security matters; liaison with the Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of National Defense, and Central Trade Union Council. Exit permits; entry permits for ministry employees to visit industrial plants. Appointment of ministry officials to commissions, etc. Gov- ernment supervision, disciplinary matters, honorary titles, and the recti.ication of wrongs. Group II. Financial and Economic Chief: Dr Josef Novak Deputy: Dr Frantisek Vesely Section P II/1 Chief: Dr Frantisek Vesely Functions; Financial and budgetary matters of the ministry and of sub- ord?inate offices. Section P 11/2 Chief: Dr Antonin Vejvoda Functions: Economic affairs of the ministry and of subordinate offices; supervision over institutirnal management and plant kitchens. Section P III Chief: Dr Bohdan Skrdlant Functions: Organizational matters of the ministry and of subordinate offices; jurisdictional disputes. Following of government decrees. Official supervision of the administration of auxiliary offices; affairs uuder the jurisdiction of no other office. 2 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Section P IV Chief: Dr Josef Taborsky Functions: Establishing norms for the activity of other central offices. Section P V Chief: L51an7 Functions: Press and propaganda affairs. Directly subordinated to the presidium, of which it is Library Chief: Frantisek Oprsal Information Office Chief: Alois Peterka Office of the Presidium Chief* Josef Broz Deputy: Otokar Lutherer Subordinated to the office of the Presidium: 1. Writing room of the Presidium 2. Telephone switchboard 3. Teletype Administration of Auxiliary Offices Chief: Josef Kvapil Deputy: Karel Riha Functions: Supervision of undisturbed work in auxiliary offices (including printing, proofreading, document room, arcbieves). Supervision of office employees of auxiliary offices and offices of the departments. Ministerial Accounting Office Chief: Karel Jansa Deputy: Karel Zahorsky Chief's Office Chief: Karel Zahorsky Functions: Organization of accounting services, checking service. Funds for official duties, supervision of accounting of funds for social wel- fare in the mining industry, etc. Section 1 Chief: Cenek Philipp Functions: Keeping books (except for permanent expenses). Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 : Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for STAT Section 2 Chief: Zdenek Klaboch Functions: Liquidation of official expenses. Section Chief: Josef Nedorost Functions: Adjustment of traveling expenses and reserves. Economic Administration: Chief: Alois Mik Deputy. Antonin Bednar Functions: Purchasing and recording the economic needs of the ministry; petty cr.sh;.payments of official salaries. Building management. LDFPARTMENTS] Department I. Economic Department head: Dr Josef Piskac Deputy: Dr Frantisek Hendl Chief: Dr Frantisek Hendl Functions. Cooperation at peace negotiations, and in problems of repara- tions and international law. Preparation and cooperation in commercial- political negotiations. Cooperation in planning foreign trade. Control of the foreign trade plan. Coordination of the needs of the domestic market with foreign trade. Cooperation in the commercial affairs of the national enterprises. Fairs, foreign industrial expositions. Con- clusion of the UNRRA pro6:am. Section I/2 Chief: Dr Antonin Bohm Functions: Coordination of political-economic problems. General industrial affairs. Current economic problems not included elsewhere. Competitions and other promotional drives. Financial problems of industry. Liaison with the Ministry of Finance and the banks. Section 1/3 Chief: Dr Jarmir Ruzha Functions: Sociopolitical affairs, cooperation with the Ministry of Social Welfare. Price and wage matters. Solution of wage, salary, and social problems in nationalized industry. National competition in the economic progress of the republic. Entry permits into industrial estab- lishments. Work brigades. Scrap collections. T Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for STAT Functions: Legal, economic, general administrative, and social affairs of the miners. Functions: Cooperation with transportation ..aterprises concerned with transporting industrial raw materials and products: meeting the require- ments of industry and the trades in transportation matters. Cooperation in transportation matters of the national enterprises and central and regional organs. Functions: Industrial research, its coordination, and control of its execution and use. Patents and inventions. Special technical problems. General technical problems relating to the technical organization of production (technical regulations, norms, standardization, specializa- tion. mechanization). Elimination of losses, etc. Liaison with cen- tral standardization offices and other similar scientific organizations. Section I Functions: Study of economic and industrial problems in industry and trades. Examination of current developments and structural changes in industry and trades. Preparation of situation reports. Economic docu- mentation. Department II. Planning and Plan Control Department head: Dr Antonin Srba GrouF A. Planning Chief: Dr Josef Vacek Section II/1 Temporarily in charge: Dr Jaroslav Winkler Functions: Organization of the plan, work on norms, financial plan. Liaison with the Economic Council. Section 11/2 Chief: Engr Otto Topinka Functions: Construction investments plan. Cooperation with the Minis- try of Technology in matters of standardization of construction. Exemptions from prohibitions on construction. -5- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for STAT Temporarily Jl charge: Engr Karel Brouk Functions: Plan of construction investmente, import of machinery. Changes in nonconstruction investments. Section IIA Chief: Dr Eduard Plachetka Functions: Plan for distribution of confiscated property. Classifica- tion of enterprises (allotment of machinery, etc.). Section I1/5 Chief: Dr Josef Vacek Functions: Coordination of production planning for efficiency. Quality of production. Planning of detailed tasks of industrial and trades production. Planning group for products and services. Section II/6 Temporarily in charge: Dr Mdroslav Skokan Functions: Regional planning. Unindustrialized regions. Industrializa- tion of Slovakia. Removal, expansion, and establishment of new indus- trial plants. Decentralization of industrial enterprises. Records of industrial enterprises and operations. Section IL/7 Chief: Dr Karel Jira Functions: Manpower plan, including specialized workers. Group B. Control Under the deputy department head. Section II/8 Under the deputy department head. Functions: Control of the qualitative and quantitativ! plan.. Overcoming obstacles in the fulfillment of the production plan. Section L Chief: Engr Karel Vopicka Functions: Statistics on industrial and trades production. Statistical checks on the fulfillment of production and efficiency plans. Department III: Raw Materials and Discinlina*v Matt ra in Prod ++ Department head: Engr Daniel Remecky Deputy: Engr Lev Baba Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 : STAT Section III/1 Temporarily in charge: Engr Karel Karl Functiond: Price matters. Concerned with the management of raw mate- rials and power. Checking on the rnw materials market at home and abroad and the raw materials consumption plan and its adjustment among individual industrial branches as well as among nonindustrial users. Cooperation with central planning offices. Functions: Fuels, power, Section 111/3 Chief: Engr Josef Piicka Functions: Raw materials tries. Functions: Raw materials Section 111/5 Chief. Dr Josef Chvatal Functions: Raw materials ceramics, wood, paper, Section 111/6 Chief: Dr Tomas Tauer products of the construction materials, printing industries. and and Functions: Raw materials for the textile, leather, and rubber industries. Section 111/7 Temporarily in charge: Dr Milos Krtil Functions: Control and disciplinary matters of production under the Ministry of Industry, especially of management regulations. Sections 111/2 to 111/7 are also responsible for following and processing the results of the fulfillment of raw materials consumption plans. By assuring raw materials supplies, they are also to overcome those obstacles which prevent plan fulfillment, and which could not be over- come by the industries themselves, within the framework of the plan. Evaluating and removing the causes of obstacles to plan fulfillments. Controlling supplies; efficient use of raw materials; determination of priorities. Creation of consumption norms and regulations; cooperation with central distribution offices. Problems of import and export in cooperation with Department I. -7- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 : Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for STAT Department IV Nationalized Industry Department head: Dr Pavel Tomek Deputy: Dr Frantisek Jerabek Secti-Iv 1 Chief: Dr Frantisek Jerabek Section IV/la Chief: Engr Vaclav Obdrzalek Functions: Nationalization of enterprises within the Jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry and extent of nationalization of property of nationalized enterprises. Establishment and organization of national enterprises, and of central and regional organs. Section IV/lb Chief: Dr Zdenek Nespor Functions: General matters in the national administration of enterprises. Section IV/2 Chief: Jan Hlavac Functions: Personnel matters of national enterprises and cooperation in matters under the Jurisdiction of Section I/3. Section IV/ Functions: General economic control of central organs of nationalized industry and supervision of national enterprises, in cooperation with central organs of the central and regional directorates. Section IV/4 Chief. Vaclav Hajny Functions: Legal, accounting, financial, tax, and organizational matters of national and nationalized enterprises. Department V. Legislative and Legal Department head: Dr Miloslav Trnec Deputy: Ludvik Kuba Section V/1 Chief: Dr Antonin F.ybs Functions: General legal. matters, norm setting excepted. Coordination of legal matters with individual departments. Preparation of matters for the government. -8 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for STAT Functions: Norm setting within the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Indus- try, as long as not included in Section V/3. Setting of mining norms. Section V/3 Functions: Setting of norms for commerical law, cooperatives, and for power, as long as not included under Department VII. Functions: Questions of compensation for nationalized property. Liaison with the office of the delegate of the government within the Ministry of Finance. Department VI. Small Business. Producing Cooperatives, and National Administra- tions Department head: Theodor Pistorius Deputy: Dr Josef Bulicek Functions: Organization and supervision of local administration of small business. Functions: General matters of commercial law. Execution of trade regula- tions in the field of independent and trades businesses. General economic matters and planning for the trades. Section VI/3 Chief: Dr Bohuslav Peklo Functions: Licensing and limiting of independent businesses and trades. Section VI/4 Chief: Dr Oldrich Endres Functions: Licenses of small businesses; radio licenses. Section VI/5 Chief: Engr Rudolf Klein Functions: Cooperatives, social welfare in small businesses. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Section VI/6 Chief: Engr Jiri Vanek STAT Functions: Technical and economic improvements in production. Services and institutions for the improvement of small business. Expositions and fairs for industrial small business. Training of youth and appren- tices for small industries. Section VI/? Chief: Dr Josef Bulicek Functions: Establishment of national administration of patents and indus- trial property. Section VI/8 Chief: Dr Frantisek Kubanek Functions: Popular and artistic production. Committee on care of young artists. Departmnet head: Dr Ecgx Vladimir Plehac Deputy: Engr Jiri Dostal Grout, A. Mining In charge: Engr Ludvik Kuncicky Section VII/1 Chief: Dr Engr Jiri Seda Functions: General matters of mining administration, miners' education, and the schooling of mining youth. Cooperation in social affairs and i, wage policies. Cases on mining law; arrangement and appeal of cases. Legal question in the power industry. Functions: Mine police, issuing of regulations for the mine police, miner's occupational diseases. Committee on safety, surface main- tenance, and care of medicinal springs. Functions: Supervision of the inspection staff of mining offices, safety regulations, and statistics of injuries. Training of assistants in matters dealing with mine inspectors. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 STAT SactionyII/4 Chief: Engr Ludvik Kuncicky Functions: Industrial Policies. Planning of production and control plans. Economic supervision; cooperation with general directorate in questions of coal and ores; production and mining statistics. Produc- tion and consumption statistics on power. Section VII/5 Chief: Engr Bohumil ifunmel Functions: Prospecting for mineral deposits. Unexploited minerals, petroleum, and natural gas. Research and inventions in mining. Group B. Power In charge: Engr Jiri Dostal Section VII/6 Section chief: Engr Oldrich Tadra Functions: Systematic electrification. Economic supervision of electric power plants and heating plants. Cooperation in planning and manage- ment of production and investments; control of the plan. Genera]. adminis- trative, technical, economic, and organizational affairs of power manage- ment with regard to production, consumption, and delivery of electric power to consumers. Checking on testing, research, and inventions in the power industry. Transmission of power to other countries; opera- tional regulations; technical norms. Section VII/7 Chief: Engr Vojtech Vavra Functions: Systematic supply and management of gas. Cooperation in the planning of production and investments. General administrative, tech- nical, economic, and organizational problems of the gas industry. Section VII/8 Chief: Engr Miroslav Nekola Functions: Systematic rural electrification, and control of its execution. Section VII/9 Chief: Engr Josef Mejstrik Functions: Exploitation of fuels; increasing heat and power efficiency in industries and homes. Supervisory service for heating. Management of water in industrial plants, and general administration, economic and organizational affairs relative to waterworks. Section VII/10 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for STAT Functions: Supervision of security measures taken by business offices and by the Technical Supervisory Association. Security regulations for this department. Boiler regulations. Department VIII. Metallurgy and Metalworking Department head: Engr Stanislav Rena Deputy: Engr ravel Matousek Group A. General In charge: Engr Karel Matousek Section VIII/1 Chief. Dr Jaroslav Piskacek Functions: Industrial policies of the department. Legal, price, wage, and commercial policy matters; coordination of international matters of the department. Section VIII/2 Chief. Engr Jaroslav ilovotny Functions: Planning of production, control of the plan. Checking on production of investment goods, standardization. General technical questions, statistics, and records. Group B. Metallurgical Temporarily in charge: Dr Engr Bohumir Bores Section VIII/3 Temporarily in charge: Engr Jaroslav Marel Functions: Handling orders of nonmetallurgicel enterprises in the fac- tories of the Czechoslovak Metallurgical Plants; coordinating deliveries. Allotments of scrap raw materials and orders for allotments of nonferrous metals. Section VIII /4 Temporarily in charge: Jiri Nossek Functions: Cooperation with the raw materi department in fixing and distributing quotas. Allotment of iron material from the reserves of the Ministry of Industry. Allotment of nonferrous metals. Central accounting department for quotas of iron and metals for all economic sectors. Control of management of iron and nonferrous metals. Section VIII/5 Chief: Engr Frantisek Splechtna Functions: Ironworks, steel mills, rolling mills. Alloy steel. - 12.- Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 : STAT Section VIII/6 Chief: Engr Vojtech Burianek Functions: Foundries for gray iron, steel, and tempered castings. Precious metals. Section VIII/7 Chief: Engr Bdhumir Bores Functions: Metallurgical plants, rolling mills, foundries, and smelting plants. Section VIII/8 Chief: Engr Antonin Lichtenber Functions: Plants producing wire, mile, screws, wire mesh, perforated sheet, etc. Group B. Metalworking Temporarily in charge: Engr Vladimir Baros Section VIII/9 Section chief: Engr Vladimir Baros Functions: Heavy machine building, steel constructions, bridges, heavy investment goods. Functions; Precision machinery, testing machines, machine tools, light production tools, precision mechanics, iptics, weapons, ammunition. Section VIII/11 Temporarily in charge: Engr Eduard Felix Functions: Vehicles and airplanes Section VIII/12 Chief: Engr Milos Hradecny Functions: Electrotechnical industry Section VIII/13 Temporarily in charge: Engr Jiri Beran Functions: Agricultural machinery and equipment; small metal products. Section VIII/14 Chief: Dr Frantisek Hanak Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for STAT Functions: Distribution of confiscated machines and machines received through reparations. Department IX. Chemical W.odvorkina. Paper, and Graphics Industries Department head: Dr Engr Jan Schrank Deputy: Engr Frantisek Krampla Section IX/1 Chief: Engr Frantisek Krampla Functions: Industrial policies of the department. Legal, price, vage, and trade policy matters. Planning of production; plan control. Coordination of intradepartmental affairs. Statistics and records. Group A. Chemical Industry In charge: Dr Engr Miloslav Kohout Section IX/P Chief: Dr Engr Josef Ebr Functions: Inorganic chemistry. Section IX/3 Chief: Engr Josef Storkan Functions: Organic chemistry. Section IX/4 Chief: Evicen Burda, Ph M Functions: Pharmaceutical preparations, cosmetics, remedies for protect- ing plants and killing parasites, substances for disinfection and conservation of plants. Section IX/5 Chief: Dr Engr Miloslav Kohout Functions: Motor fuels and mineral oils of all types, explosives. Section IX/6 Chief: Er j-- Ludvik Zakl Functions: Industrial fa`9 and oils, soaps and soap products, candles, and cleansers. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Section IX/7 Chief: Dr Engr Vojtecb Krafneter Functions: Manufacturing and processing of plastics. Group B. Wood Temporarily in charge: Engr Josef Koudr Section I-X 8 Chief: Engr Josef Koudr STAT Functions: Sawmill products and products made from wastes. Wood products not named elsewhere. Allotments of wood. Section IX/9 Chief: Engr Mate,j Jungwirth Functions: Wooden constructions and parts, carpenters' products, impreg- nated lumber, veneers, plywood, parquets, and cabinetmakers' products (furniture, windows, doors, coffins, etc.). Section IX 10 Temporarily in charge: Dr Ladislav Kolar Functions: Toys, musical instruments of all types, cork products, laths, bristles and brush goods, pencils, matches, excelsior. Miscellaneous wood products. Group C. Paper In charge: Engr Frantisek Doubek Section IX/11 Temporarily in charge: ' rel Cerny Functions: Paper and cardboard of all types. Section IX/12 Chief: Engr Frantisek Doubek Functions: Cellul,)se and wood pulp. Section IX/13 Chief: Jan Roubal Functions: Industrial and trades paper processing; substitute linoleum. Section IX/14 Chief: Jaroslav Oliva Functions: Bookprinting. Other graphic and lithographic enterprises. - 15 - Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 STAT Department X. Glass. Building bkterinls and Ceramics Industry Department head: Dr Arnos Weigi Deputy: Dr Engr Josef House Section X11 Chief: Dr Engr Josef Housa Functions: Industrial policies of the department. Legal, price, salary, and commercial policy matters. Planning of production, control of plan. Coordination of the internal affairs of the department. Statistics and records. Group A. Glass In charge: Engr 'laclav Strnad Section X/2 Chief: Dr Oldrich Kutina Functions: Hollow glass, chemical, pharmaccutical, and laboratory glass, tubing, and precious stones. Section X/3 Chief: Vincenc Cujan Functions: Flat glass, mirror glass, optical glass, building glass, and foam glass. Section X/4 Chief: Engr Vaclav Strnad Functions: Costume jewelry (including me,,.al), small glass articles, and ,lass fibers. Group B. Building Materials In charge: Zdenek Nemecek Section X/5 Chief: Zienek Nemecek Functions: Cement, cement goods, lime, asbestos and asbestos products, roofing paper, building insulation. Secticn X/6 Chief: Engr Jaromir Kocourek Functions: Bricks, stone quarrying, stone processing. Construction industry. Group C. Ceramics Temporarily in charge: Dr Milos Ciganek - 16 - 1111100111111111110 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 : CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for STAT Sectiof X/7 Temporarily in charge: Dr Milos Ciganek Functions: Ceramics industry, including porcelain. Section X/8 Chief: Dr Milos Ciganek Functions: Mining of minerals and clay, mica, peat, gypsum, and sand. Department XI. Textile, Leather, and Rubber Industry Department head: Engr Vilem Zavrel Deputy: Dr Kamil Victorin Group A. General In charge: Dr Kamil Victor in Section XI/l Chief: Dobromil Pekarek Functions: Industrial policies of the department. Planning of production and plan control for the textile industry. Price, wage, and commercial policy matters. Coordination of internal departmental matters. Functions: Planning of production and plan control of the leatherwork- iug industry. Legal and commercial matters. Checking on special tech- nical problems; statistics and records. Group B: Textiles In charge; Dr Jan ZaJic Section XI/3 Chief: Dr Jan Zajic Functions: Cotton and silk industry. Bast fiber industry. Refining industry. Section XI/4 Chief: Jaromir Marhoul Functions: Wool; knitting, and hosiery industry. Section XI/5 Chief: Josef Bohuslav Functions: Clothing and fur industry. Group C. Leather and Rubber In charge: Dr Jaroslav Vorel Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8 Section XI/6 Chief: Dr Jaroslav Vorel STAT Functions: Leather tanneries. Production of leather goods with the exception of shoes. Section X:/7 Chief: Jan Prokop Functions: Manufacture of shoes of all types. Section XI/8 Chief: Dr Engr Vlastimil Vicovsky Functions: Production of rubber goods with the exception of rubber shoes. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/31 CIA-RDP80-00809A000700040502-8