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| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NI-4151 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 226 |
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| ORDER OF GOERING, 3 MARCH 1941, APPROVING THE FOUNDATION OF THE REICH ASSOCIATION COAL AND APPOINTING PLEIGER, DEFENDANT FLICK, AND OTHERS AS MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION | |
| Berlin, 3 March 1941 | |
| The Reich Marshal of the Greater
German Reich Plenipotentiary for the Four Year Plan I approve the foundation of the "Reich Association Coal" [Reichsvereinigung Kohle] with the tasks laid down in the enclosed minutes,¹ and confirm the following gentlemen as members of the above-named association: |
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| Paul Pleiger² | Chairman |
| Heinrich Wisselmann | (1st) deputy chairman |
| Franz Hayler | (2d) deputy chairman |
| Otto
Berve Alfried v. Bohlen und Halbach³ Gustav Brecht |
(Deputy Hermann Winkhaus) |
| Friedrich Flick | (Deputy Ernst Buskuehl)4 |
| Gustav
Knepper Rudolf Stahl |
(Deputy Otto Steinbrinck) |
| Ernst Tengelmann | (Deputy Wilhelm Tengelmann) |
| Edmund
Tobies Two representatives of the trade |
(One representative of the trade within the industry, and another of the ordinary trade) |
| The Reich Association Coal and its members are responsible to me for the execution [Durchfuehrung] of the tasks pertaining to the coal industry in the Greater German Reich. At the same time I authorize the Reich Minister for Economics to take all the necessary measures. | |
¹ The minutes referred to were not a part of the document offered in evidence.
² Defendant in the Ministries case, Volumes XII-XIV, this series.
³ Defendant in the Kropp case, Volume IX, this series.
4 Buskuehl was director general of the Harpen Mining Company in which the Flick Concern held a majority participation.
