A. On the first of March 1904.
Q. What was your position at the end of the war?
A. At the end of the war, I was Central Department Manager at the Ministry of Armament.
Q. Thank you. Witness, when and in what position did you have to do official business with the defendant?
A. I had some dealings with him on official business after 1944 when I became Chief of the Amtsgruppeneinsatz in the Ministry of Armament. I saw him again after the Jaegerstab was formed, that is, after March 1944.
Q. In your position in the Ministry of Armament, did you have anything to do with the Central Planning Board?
A. I had something to do with them insofar as the chief of staff of the armament office was concerned. He was my chief. I had to write down the necessary figures concerning labor assignments when I accompanied him to certain sessions of the Central Planning Board as assistant.
Q. What month was that, approximately?
A. As far as I can remember the first session in which I participated was in February or March 1944. I did not always participate in these sessions, only in a few of them when I accompanied the man I mentioned before.