I don't believe I have to refer to the various smaller tasks in that field, that main field of tasks. I believe they are irrelevant for the case. Therefore, I would like to stress, however, that main department next at the Main Department Hospital Construction was the actual field of tasks of Office C-2, though all the other Main Departments were far in the background. Those tasks in connection with the Reich Dwelling Commissioner lasted until 1943. Then the project of the so-called War Buildings, or War Dwellings started for those families who had been bombed out of their buildings, and that was part of the field of tasks of the Reich Dwelling Commissioner. However, the whole matter did not come through because the Plenipotentiary General for construction of Economy refused to put at our disposal the necessary quantity of construction material. Then we had the so called Behelfsheim - Works, which were the so called buildings and small dwellings for families that had been bombed out, and that was part of the activity of the Reich Dwelling Commissioners also. I myself carried out the negotiations for a request of construction quotas and material quotas, and I finally got through and I received five-hundred coupons for auxiliary homes. I believe it was early in 1944. Those construction coupons for the auxilliary homes according to my opinion were sent to Office C-5, Construction Inspectorate, which then took care of the necessary steps. The Main Department C-5 Dwelling Constructions towards the end of 1944, and/or 1945, early in '45 was dissolved due to unusual conditions at the time. I would like to stress that it was not a task of that Main Department to procure buildings which were already completed, or to put them at the disposal of people, that was never the tasks of that Main Department, nor was it my task.
Q: The last Main Department of your office is C-2-VI, and it is entitled Agriculture Special Construction Tasks. What is to be understood by that, and what was done here?
A: This Main Department again has one term which it uses, which is the Agriculture Constructions and Agriculture Special Constructions.
They were also dealt with in Departments A and D. So far as the Agriculture Constructions were concerned, we did the basic planning for Agriculture Constructions, and that is to say, to parallel those constructions for the home coming soldiers, and also we had to carry out the basic planning for the barns and farms which were necessary for the agriculture activities in the pacade grounds or certain army installations. Apart from that for the preparation for this construction project after the war, all the basic construction principles for agriculture construction were compiled in one book, which was given to the medium levels and to the lower levels as a basis for the purpose of construction work in Department C-2-VI-B. In one of the Main Departments of the SS two projects were dealt with. One of them was the plans for the framework for a horse hospital, and the second one was the plans for the framework of a horse breeding installation. There again the personnel strength is very remarkable, and the man in charge, Hauser, at the same time was the man in charge of all the other two departments. He resigned early in 1943, exactly as did Luemkemann, because they were drafted into the army, and a civilian employee Rass, who had only been transferred to that Main Department at that time, returned to his original Office C-4. From that moment on that Main Department was absolutely vacant, and only existed on paper.
Q: By Special Constructions in this connection, is it to be understood that the construction of crematories and gas chambers are also included in that?
A: No, apart from the fact that in Office C-2 there was no concentration camp tasks included, as I said before, it is clearly shown in the organizational chart, and it is stated there what construction work is dealt with. As I said, all the agriculture construction work was carried out by Agriculture Special Constructions on the horse breeding farms of the SS.
Q: You just stated that the various tasks of your field of tasks were not dealt with regularly.
Would you tell me then what happened to the personnel of these Departments referred to?
A: When certain experts were not absolutely busy they were transferred within the offices, that is to say, they were assigned to those special tasks where they were urgently needed. However, when the work was stopped, then they were either transferred to other agencies, at least part of them, and civilian employees also lost their jobs, or resigned, and they went over to the war plants, which they did very gladly, because they were paid much more there. Sometimes, however, Dr. Kammler simply transferred my personnel for other purposes.
Q: That Office, C-2, did you think it was strong enough to take care of construction work for Amtsgruppe C, or rather, did it seem important to you during the war, or would you say that your office could have been eliminated during the war?
A: During the war Office C-2 as such was not necessary actually. A dissolution probably would not have been noticed at all, because the questions dealt with by Office C-2 generally speaking could not have been carried out according to the regulations concerning construction projects; that does not mean, however, that Office C-2 was absolutely unnecessary or superfluous, that was not the case, because the tasks dealt with here would have become of great importance at the end of the war when the blocked peacetime budget would have started again. From that moment on all these tasks dealt with here would have become the basis for the normal construction projects of the constructions compiled in Office C-2.
THE PRESIDENT: We do not seem to have a diagram of the subdivisions of C-2. Have they been furnished in a diagram form? We have the original chart attached to the basic information document, is that all we are to have?
MR. ROBBINS: In the chart form, yes, and there is a table -- you have a table there.
THE PRESIDENT: Oh.
MR. ROBBINS:NO-1288 is the document and it gives all the subdivisions in Book II.
THE PRESIDENT: Alright, that is what I am looking for. Then there is another table which gives the subdivisions of Office-C, and that is on page 117 of the same Document Book No. II, Document NO-498. A more complete one is on page -
MR. ROBBINS: Seventy-six.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.
MR. ROBBINS: Yes.
BY DR. MAYER:
Q: Will you, witness, continue with your answer?
A: All I want to say in conclusion on this subject was that Dr. Kammler had asked that this normal construction work called peacetime work would be started, and should start without any difficulties, and without any bottlenecks, and, that was why we were carrying out this preliminary task of Office C-2.
Q: Apart from the personality of Kamler, which we will refer to later on anyway as one of my questions, was it possible for him to give a task to some member of Amtsgruppe C, which was not part of the regular task that was to be carried out by the Amtsgruppe or by the man referred to? I ask you now, witness, did Dr. Kammler ever issue an order to you which was outside of your sphere of activity?
A. No. During my short stay in the Main Office Construction and Budget, and during my entire activity in Amtsgruppe C, I never received an order which was outside my sphere of activities. Nor did I ever carry out any such work. However, I would like to stress explicitely at this moment that I never at any time dealt with any work orders which were somehow connected with the planning or establishment of crematories or gas chambers. In the course of this trial, it has repeatedly been mentioned that gas chambers were also used for de-lousing purposes. I would therefore like to state under oath that I had nothing to do with the planning or establishment of the de-lousing installations. I think this statement is rather important because the Defendant Pohl testified here in the witness dock directly when he was asked by the Tribunal if the gas chambers or crematories were planned or established by Office C-2.
Q. In the sphere of your activities, did you have any contact with Kammler? That is to say, did you have to see Kammler regularly in his capacity as Chief in order to report to him? Or did you only have to see him when that was actually necessary?
A. There was no such thing as reporting to Kammler on certain days. I only went to see him when it was actually necessary. That resulted sometimes while we were working on some project. For instance, if I needed Dr. Kammler's decision, if we were to deal with that task according to an economical or optimal point of view, we would see him when the special task was concluded in order to get his signature. He did not want to put his signature on all the preparatory statements. As my work took up quite a bit of time, those conferences were not frequent. As a rule, I would say that I reported to him approximately once or twice a month. Occasionally, I reported to him less frequently.
Q. Did you have the authority to issue orders or to sign?
A. No. I said before that Dr. Kammler was the one who wanted to sign all the approvals himself, and all the certificates himself with the exception of the Essential Construction Special Office C-V. Thus also, C-II had no authority to issue orders to construction agencies.
I, myself, did not have any disciplinary authority because I had not been approved as Chief of the Office during my entire activity.
Q. Did you have any other official contact with Kammler apart from that mentioned now?
A. Yes, indeed, so-called Chief of Office or Experts' Conferences. What I mean by that is at the beginning of an activity, Dr. Kammler once in a while had such conferences. When he dealt with conditions concerning the organization of the construction administration itself, which was just in its early stages, he had these conferences then. However, in such cases he would not call in all the chiefs of offices to that conference; but he would state specifically who the Amt Chief was who was important and who should be there for either of the conferences. The conferences were irregular and seldom.
However, as of 1943 or rather the end of 1943, Dr. Kammler called in experts more frequently for conferences. This was in connection with the fact that in October or November Dr. Kammler transferred his offices from the WVHA Building to the suburb of Grunewald, Taunusstrasse where he established a new office. At the time I heard it that probably was in connection with the establishment of a reserve staff which was outside of the WVHA, of which Dr. Kammler was the chief.
Dr. Kammler had ordered that those Chief of Offices Conferences should take place, generally speaking, every Saturday. I, myself, actually participated in few such conferences. The reason was that Dr. Kammler was absent from Berlin quite frequently and the conferences, therefore, did not occur very regularly. I, myself, in March and April, 1944, spent two months in a hospital and as of June or July, 1944, I had the order which I mentioned before, namely to give lectures in the leadership school of Ardsen concerning special construction codes. That lasted until March of 1945 with short interruptions.
Q. Why was it that Dr. Kammler thought it necessary to call in regular conferences on Saturday?
A. He selected Saturday for that particular purpose. I do not know why.
Q. I don't want to know why he did call them in on Saturday. Why did he call them regularly? Before they were absolutely irregular.
A. Yes. I said before he moved his offices from the WVHA Building and thus the contact between him and his collaborators in Amtsgruppe C actually became lost. In some offices, he did have his steady deputy, Professor Schleif, but he did not give the necessary authority to that deputy. That was his character. I know that by the fact that Dr. Schleif told me personally one day that in that position he feels as if he were a so-called butler in uniform of a good family.
Q. The was it that was to participate in those conferences?
A. The chiefs of offices were to participate, also experts of Amtsgruppe C who had been designated by Dr. Kammler. It all depended on the questions which he wanted to ask some of those people. Sometimes experts were selected by the chief of the office himself.
Q. What was the number of persons participating?
A. By calling in those experts also, I would give you an average figure of approximately 10 to 14 men; 14 being the highest number and 10 the lowest.
Q. What did they talk about in those conferences?
A. Today, after a period of three years, it is not very easy for me to tell you in detail just what the contents of those conversations in which I participated were. However, it occurred approximately the following way. In October, 1943, the offices of Amtsgruppe C were damaged for the second time by an air-raid. They were almost destroyed entirely. Then, again, part of it was badly damaged. The Amtsgruppe, so to speak, was out in the street with all its main departments. The idea now was to put the Amtsgruppe back on a working basis because it was not only the offices that had been destroyed by those bombs, but also all our technical equipment which we needed for our work. At the time the question was being dealt with, as to whether the Amtsgruppe was to be transferred entirely from Berlin. In some of these conferences we discussed whether this transfer would actually be carried out or not.
However, this turned out to be a measure which did not seem too appropriate because the connection between this ministerial level with all the other Reich agencies of which the Construction Department of the Waffen-SS was part, would be interrupted. They would depend on each other. Dr. Kammler then decided that only part of Amtsgruppe C was to be transferred, that is to say, in case there should not be any space where it could be located in Berlin. Those offices were C-IV and C-VI. They were transferred to Oranienburg approximately 40 kilometers from Berlin. Furthermore, the collaboration of the offices with the Reich Agency was discussed in those conferences.
As I said before, the construction administration was absolutely dependant on the agencies just mentioned, that was first of all the plenipotentiary general for the Construction Economy, he was in charge of all the quota allocations.
That agency was of extreme importance. During the war it changed its regulations and its organization several times. Very often very unfortunate disturbances occurred due to those changes. They actually hampered the construction.
For instance, sometimes by simply changing the term of delivery or then by changing the regulations certain approvals which had been given were withdrawn or became completely void. In 1942 that agency was entirely dissolved and replaced by an entirely different organization. That was the Office Construction Organization Todt. There was a special Fuehrer Order that all construction agencies of the Reich including the construction agencies of the Wehrmacht were subordinated to that Office OT, Organization Todt. It can be understood that such measures were of great importance for the construction administration of the Waffen SS and that was the reason why the conferences contained quite a little bit of that material. The third subject that was treated with were personnel questions. As the tasks increased due to Dr. Kammler receiving more and more tasks there was a definite lack of good technical personnel and Dr. Kammler had a certain procedure by which he selected these people. He simply transferred those technicians and those specialists over-night, so to speak, to his agency.
It was natural that the Chiefs of Office first of all would try to make him change his decision by objecting to the procedure as such because actually most of the time it would hamper their own work and it actually caused disagreements between Dr. Kammler and those Chiefs of Office in those conferences. I would like to say at the same time that the relationship between Dr. Kammler and his Chiefs of Offices became worse and worse, because he was absolutely ruthless in those things and because those conferences with reference to the personnel questions due to Dr. Kammler's personality became rather full of arguments. I would like to say the following thing, namely: all of those things that were treated as secret were not discussed in those expert conferences because, after all, those things were not to be discussed according to regulations in front of such a board. Furthermore, specific construction tasks were not discussed either to which Dr. Kammler had issued special orders and the authority which he kept entirely to the very end.
The duration of those expert conferences was rather short at all times. Dr. Kammler never did have the time to stay very long and most of the time he wouldn't even take off his coat when he walked into those conferences. I can really say that the longest conference I participated in lasted approximately 15 minutes. That, generally speaking, were the contents of those conferences in which I participated.
Q. Didn't you hear of any social happenings or of the official incidents which occurred at Amtsgruppe C?
A. Yes. Well, the things we were generally speaking of were official matters dealt with by other offices. All war economic questions which were connected with the Plenipotentiary General for the Construction Economics were dealt with the Plenipotentiary for Wood. All of those questions in connection with those two people I mentioned were discussed there. However, those actual construction matters were not dealt with in those conferences nor were those the actual aim of those conferences.
Q. What was it that actually happened with the results of the work carried out in your office?
A. When a basic plan or plans for frame-work were completed in my office I had to submit them to Dr. Kammler for his signature. I, myself, as Chief of his Office did not even have the right to sign for my own work. Then when Dr. Kammler had approved them by signing them they were sent to the planning department which is on the organizational chart of Amtsgruppe C. That document is Document No. 1288, Exhibit 44 and in Document Book No. 2 and that department is in the Staff of Dr. Kammler and the Staff is C-B. They were at the disposal of Dr. Kammler there and he was actually in charge of them. He could do anything he wanted with it. For instance, in the case where such plans for frame-work where such plans or preliminary sketches could be used for some sort of a job he would probably send it to some agency interested in those things or then he would refer them to the competent office in Amtsgruppe C which is the Central Construction Inspectorate C-5.
Q. Did you later on have anything to do with the plans for frame-work?
A. If Dr. Kammler didn't order any changes or additions then I didn't because the moment when I transferred my work to the Planning Office of that Staff my task was completed.
Q. This answer can be understood in the organization in the construction field of the Waffen SS. I would like to interpolate a small remark at this time. In all of the documents and in all of the affidavits where construction is dealt with it says Office Group C built that and a wrong impression is created by that, namely the impression as if a closed activity existed here and one thinks that this is just a compilation of all independent agencies. It isn't sufficient for him to answer the question if he had built this or that or if he used inmates and it isn't sufficient if he answers that question with "no". This "no" has to be justified. It has to be justified by showing that he couldn't possibly have built it according to the situation of the things. That explanation can be seen from the organization of the construction department of the Waffen SS. As the Chief of the Amtsgruppe is not here, it is the task of the Chief defendant of Amtsgruppe C to clear that question. The description of the functioning of that office is also necessary as a basis for the cross-examination to follow. Also in order to understand the answers given by the witness to the questions put to him on cross-examination on the basis of this statement I have just made, it seems important to me to explain the organization of the Construction Department of the Waffen SS. I would appreciate it if the Tribunal wouldn't mind if I asked a few more questions on this rather dry subject, I ask you, witness, can you tell us very briefly the organization of the Construction Department of the Waffen SS, the top level of which was AmtsgruppeC?
A. Yes, indeed. I would like to tell you, sir, before I continue that during all of those years of my activities I realized that no outsider can understand easily the structure of such an organization. An outsider thinks that such a construction administration of, say a large city of the Reich, seems to him a large construction office where all the things are dealt with on one and the same table. However, in reality it looks entirely different. That is the reason why I would like to explain the organization of the Construction Administration as it really was.
Q. Would you take a look at Document Book No. 11 and take out of there Document NO-3031 which is Exhibit No. 316. It's on page 118 of the English and Page 121 of the German Document Book. It contains a file note signed by Himmler where the organization of the construction Department is written down. I will appreciate if you would go on explaining the whole thing on the basis of this document.
Under Paragraph 6 of this document -- no, I am sorry, I made a mistake. Under paragraph 14 of this document is an approval of the Reichsfuehrer-SS for the organization of the Construction Department-II, and here you have the agencies of Building Inspectorate, Central Construction Managements, and Construction Managements. What is meant by that is this: If something was to be built some place, then a building inspectorate was set up for that particular spot. The building Inspectorate was not a permanent institution, it was established before the beginning of the construction, and disappeared again after completion of that construction project, if there was not another special construction task on that spot. The Building Inspectorate always set up the main plans in every construction case. Generally speaking, it received those construction plans from the lower levels. That is to say, from the office which was subordinated to the Building Inspectorate namely, the Special Building Construction Management. Those Special Building Construction Managements have the following tasks; They procure the material for such construction projects. They issue the plans to an enterprise, and the estimated expenses. The Central Construction Management would then supervise the construction as such, and it would also supervise the material used for that construction. At the completion of the construction, the Construction Management closed the accounts with the firm that built it; then it made up the final accounts, and it audited the special account, and transferred it to their next higher authority, as the Construction Management did not have any treasury of its own. Therefore, it did not pay any bills, and the construction itself after its completion was turned over to the organization which wanted it, and this was entirely eliminated and separated from the Construction administration.
All the Construction Managements of a District were subordinated to the one agency, which was the Central Construction Management in the SS. That Central Construction Management was a permanent agency and contrary to its name, actually did not supervise any construction work. It was the lowest administrative level. They also had a treasury and they could pay accounts up to five-thousand marks. The tasks of a Central Construction Management were the following:
THE PRESIDENT: Was this Central Construction Management within the framework of WVHA?
THE WITNESS: No, Your Honor, the Central Construction Management was subordinated to another agency, which was between the Central Construction Management and the WVHA.
DR. MAYER: You see, Your Honor, there is a special construction inspectorate which was under Amtsgruppe-C. Those are two different terms.
THE PRESIDENT: I understand the witness has told us that the actual construction for a project was accomplished by this Central Construction Management?
THE WITNESS: No, by the Construction Management, Your Honor.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, all right. We are having difficulties with the terms here, and with words. It is the Central Management, is that it?
THE WITNESS: Yes, indeed. Central Management.
THE PRESIDENT: Now the thing we are trying to find out is, what was the relation between the agency which actually did the construction work on any project, and the WVHA? Was there any?
THE WITNESS: Well, let's say, now, if there was a connection that was dealt with the the Central Construction Inspectorate in Amtsgruppe-C, but I will have to explain that later on.
DR. MAYER: It starts down at the bottom with the Construction Management, and then a Central Construction Management, and the the Construction Inspectorate. Those were actually the construction agencies, and on the other hand---
THE PRESIDENT: Tell me that again. It started at the bottom, where, that is what?
DR. MAYER: With the Construction Management.
THE PRESIDENT: The Construction Management on the lowest level.
DR. MAYER: Yes, indeed.
THE PRESIDENT: Then?
DR. MAYER: Then Central ---
THE PRESIDENT:---Construction Management.
DR. MAYER: Central Construction Management was about the same as a construction office in the army.
THE PRESIDENT: And above that?
DR. MAYER: Then came the Construction Inspectorate.
THE PRESIDENT: Inspectorate, Construction Inspectorate.
DR. MAYER: On the other side, Amtsgruppe-C, had an office of its own with the name of Central Construction Inspectorate.
THE PRESIDENT: Yes.
DR. MAYER: Kammler was in charge of what, he actually was in charge of that himself.
THE PRESIDENT: Was there any connection between these three levels, these construction levels, and C-2, or Kammler's Agency?
THE WITNESS: Yes, under special conditions. It was indicated during the war the three construction agencies, which I mentioned before, acted independently up to 100,000 marks, and higher amounts had to be approved by Kammler himself, and the other fact is he had to buy raw material, and also there were certain quotas which had to be applied for, and those things went through the Central Construction Inspectorate Office C-5 in Amtsgruppe-C.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, let's start to build, and we are building now a building which is going to cost two million marks ---
DR. MAYER: If you will excuse me, Your Honor, could I make a suggestion. The witness himself is an expert, let him answer your questions?
THE PRESIDENT: Very well. Witness, you and I are going to build a building, it is a training building for the SS young troopers, or any other kind, and it is going to cost two million marks. Now the first thing I shall have to buy is some stone for the foundation, but first, who drew the plans for the building?
THE WITNESS: The plans were drawn up by the Construction Inspectorate.
THE PRESIDENT: Is that in Office -C?
THE WITNESS: No, that is an agency which is actually considered a medium level, which is under Amtsgruppe-C.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, all right, it is connected with Amtsgruppe-C.
THE WITNESS: Well, Your Honor, it has an immediate connection only with a certain agency in Amtsgruppe-C, that was the Central Construction Inspectorate in Office C-5.
THE PRESIDENT: All right that is one of the special agencies in Amtsgruppe-C which had to do with the drawing of the plans, is that right?
THE WITNESS: The plans were drawn up by the Construction Inspectorate, which was under this higher level. However, the approval had to come from the highest level.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, please don't talk about levels. I am talking about Amtsgruppe-C. Did it have anything to do with drawing the plans?
THE WITNESS: So far as drawing plans were concerned, no.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, who did draw the plans?
THE WITNESS: The Construction Inspectorate.
THE PRESIDENT: Was that not under Amtsgruppe-C?
THE WITNESS: Yes, it was under amtsgruppe-C, yes, that is correct, but under -
THE PRESIDENT: Well, was it a part of Amtsgruppe-C?
THE WITNESS: No, it was an agency outside actually of Amtsgruppe-C. Your Honor, it would be simpler if I told you that there were four Construction Inspectorates in the Reich. One was in Munich, another one in Berlin, another one in Posen, and one in Wiesbaden.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, counsel, perhaps you had better develop this subject yourself. I think I am moving backwards instead of forward. Go ahead you try it.
THE PRESIDENT: I notice it is time for recess.
THE MARSHAL: The Tribunal is in recess for fifteen minutes.
(Recess)
THE MARSHAL: The Tribunal is again in session.
DR. MAYER: Your Honor, I suggest that the witness should now explain the organization to us, and his connection with this through the example which he has given before. He should explain this to us.
BY DR. MAYER:
Q Witness. I ask you to explain the situation to us.
A I would like to take up the suggestion which the President has made, and I would like to explain the organization through an example. I stated -
Q Just a moment, please. Witness, first of all you are to explain, and afterwards you should explain your previous statements by means of an example.
A: The construction managements, the agencies which had been ordered to carry out the constructions, were subordinated for a certain district to the central construction management; the central construction management was a permanent construction agency in contrast to the construction management which were again dissolved as soon as the construction project had been completed. The central construction management had the following tanks. It had to compile the construction plans for smaller and medium construction projects. It had to obtain the approval for these construction enterprises up to the amounts of 100,000 marks from the next higher agency of the construction inspectorate. It had also the plans approved by the civilian authorities and after the completion of the project, it accounted for bills up to 5,000 marks. Bills which amounted to more than 5,000 marks it submitted to the higher agency, the construction inspectorate.
Besides these construction tasks the central construction management also had to assist in maintaining and repairing buildings which were already in existence. That is, once a year a commission of buildings was conducted and there the central construction management had to give a diagnosis about the state of the buildings with the city administration. However, it also could order the construction management to carry out his duty. Whenever a building was inspected once a year, and when the conditions there had been approved, the central construction management would order the repair work to be carried out by the next construction management which was located in the vicinity.
This central construction management of an area was subordinated to a construction inspectorate. As I have seated before, until the year 1944 there were four construction inspectorates within the Reich territory. We had the Inspectorate North which was located At Berlin;
We had the construction inspectorate South which was located in Munich; we had the construction inspectorate West which was located at Wiesbaden and we had the construction inspectorate East which was located at Posen.
In the year 1944, two inspectorates were added. They were the construction inspectorate Silesia, which was located at Katowicze and the construction inspectorate Bohemia and Moravia which was located at Prague. As far as the tasks of the construction inspectorates were concerned, already in 1941 Dr. Kammler had decided that the entire procedure which was to be followed in carrying out construction, that is, the planning, the execution of the construction, the accounting for the expenses of the construction, and the maintenance of the buildings was to be carried out on a decentralized basis; and it was carried out by the medium agency on the medium level, which is the construction inspectorate. Therefore, from the end of 1941 on the entire execution of construction was located with the construction inspectorates, and with the agencies which were subordinated to the construction inspectorates.
The tasks of the construction inspectorate were the following: The construction inspectorate had the supervision over the subordinate construction agencies. The construction inspectorate furnished the construction plans for larger construction enterprises. The construction inspectorate obtained the approval from the construction authorities. This so-called Regierungspresident, who gave the permission to have such construction carried out at the time.
The construction inspectorate had to take care of the contingents which were required. That is to say, they had to request and procure the construction material from the district commissioner showing the services of the plenipotentiary for the construction economy.
The construction inspectorate at this time administered funds for construction.