European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To Davist newspaper editor for ten As Well As a member of the first in Kaiser was kicked out of the Senate and inc a jail in just Why he will never but somehow Kaisen was acquitted of charges of High treason against the German and retired spend the happiest years o my life on a galled Back from retirement by a jeep and an officer who stopped by the farm one Day in the summer of Kaisen wa5 appointed Senate president of Bremen and was later elected to his Post when Bremen became a Senate Early this although the problems faced by the four minister president follow roughly the same there Are major differences naturally arising oat of the geographical and political complexities of the several weekend has asked each of the Miri Tate president to answer the follow ing five four of which will be answered in next weeks the Light of their individual experiences in governing under the first democratic constitutions to exist in Germany for fourteen the an Swers Are As nearly As in the mens own what Are the major problems which faced you upon Assumpta Ioc of and what Progress have you made toward their solution Hesse the state of As presently is a combination of parts of the old state of Wiesbaden and the free German City of Frankfurt this while advantageous for future has created a major problem in Ini tial we have had to set up a state with All of its administrative functions where no Central political organization has above county in the history of much of this work was accomplished by my Karl but the machine is just be coming a smoothly functioning food has an Diu continue to a difficult matter Lor Hesse which includes an area that has never been Able to feed More than 55 per Ceat of its refugees have now upped the prewar total by approximately 20 per cent and Industrial plants largely finishing industries Are either destroyed or seriously Handi capped by Lack of raw due to hard work and grave necessity a number of Indus tries have been completely rebuilt and some of them Are now working at nearly 100 per cent prewar output More than three Hundred people Are estimated to be illegally crossing the Border into Hesse from the rus Sian occupied and we believe that they have increased our Popula Tion by at least fifty thousand since the end of we can legally Send these people but Many of them have relatives in Hesse and very few burgomaster Are willing to antagonize their constituents by exercising their right to Deport the Stock also emphasized the importance of stabilizing the Mark and increasing raw material imports to enable banners to Exchange their products for manufactured minister president Borobia the most nearly self suf Focient of the four has accepted Over refugees and exp Ellees Volk Deutsch from the a fact which has led to an acute shortage of before the War Bavaria needed imports of Grain and for about three months of the but now she is called upon to Export food even though the total Popula Tion has risen from to a Little Over it is True that Bavaria has a larger percentage of cattle than before the but it is difficult to Persu Ade Farmers to Butcher their livestock Ehard pointed out that bavarian Farmers use their cows to pull during the animals dry season when they can be offered nothing but Marks in we have been promised machinery from the British but possibly due to Lack of raw these badly needed Exchange products have not been Deli banners have been higher this year than in the eight years and 90 per cent of the quotas Are being a special problem exists in the Lack of a Standard beverage in Bavari an farm who once brewed their own malt must now Trade up to three liners of milk for one liter of very poor Quality if we take away this 4hen the Farmer will drink his milk and the state will gain confiscation of Farmers property As a pen Alty for failure to meet quotas has been seriously considered in As a possible solution to this food1 problem i Haye suggested a Point system for much like the system now employed in Coal mines of the so Many pounds of meat would equal so Many pounds of but the introduction of this barter device will depend upon availability of manufactured products from the British the second major problem in Baas in other parts of the is the economic confusion resulting from War resettling of populations and time Uncertain position of the most of bavarian major cities were severely her industries largely knocked out a Varia was not primarily an Industrial state and her housing situation had become desperate even before the influx of refugees and the refugee and expelled problem has become acute largely because More than 60 per cent of these transplanted people Are in addition to in an Effort to find even temporary housing we were forced to ministers cof Denali Micati democracy government they favor future and their As obtained fanning in t of will Pear in weekend May Send City workers into the we often found that capable farm hands had been assigned City this situation is slowly being and and some rebuilding Lias gotten under but the Large majority of these refugees and exp Ellees arrived stripped their and since a great number1 of Bavari ans lost their personal effects during the the problem of supporting this additional population has proved extremely we have been told to expect about More people from the it has not always been easy to overcome the natural resentment of the bavarian against the Volks Deutsch they find forced upon the third great problem which we have had to meet has been a shortage of qualified War the Denali fiction program and the absence of Many Young men still held As prisoners of War have made serious inroads into the experienced labor pools of exp Ellees and refugees have been Able to fit into Only attraction of the skilled positions which must be filled before the the factories and the government itself can be operated minister president  the states of Wurttemberge and Baden were split by the Allied Powers when the americans took Over their halves of these two states they immediately formed a combined ministration under a Central govern ment at this unification was a Happy one which should be continued but it presented the problem of building government functions from the ground Wurttemberge Baden is completely without raw materials and has been Able to Supply Only a fraction of its food if our Farmers met quotas 100 per cent Farmers in this state have come than any other to meeting quota obligations they could deliver Only ninety thou Sand tons of food the state consumes tons a we have always met this problem by Export of heavy Industrial pro ducts which naturally has not been possible under the present economic it has been fifty years since this area was Able to its refugees have added to the population of Wurttemberge and More than 30 per cent of the housing in this area was Des troyed or seriously damaged during the when i first took the summer of we began a rebuilding program to has achieved considerable seventy thou Sand most of them not too seriously have been completely renovated and we Are now at an understandably re diced the More seriously Knock Bedout it is apparent that Wurttemberge Baden has led the other states in War damage transportation was one of our most serious problems due to fact that this area has always de Pended heavily upon imports from the a vast improvement in both rail and water transport has some what relieved this Early problem and now a Lack of raw materials re Mains the Only stumbling Block up the Industrial picture Maier was the Only minister presi Dent to mention the formation of the or continued on Page 23 r but ult Wurttemberge Baden