III
Apart from the weekly presidents’ meeting, a special meeting with the presidents of the Special Courts in Hamburg will be held in my office every week at a date personally arranged by me in each case in which the attorney general and the chief public prosecutor of the Hamburg district court will also take part. With this meeting I shall connect a conference with the head of the public relations department for legal matters in Hamburg.
As stated under I, the chief prosecutor of the Hamburg district court will report on essential preliminary investigations on Special Court cases, which have been brought before the prosecuting authority during the preceding week.
The presidents of the Special Courts will report in the same way on essential decisions passed by the Special Courts during the preceding week as well as on important cases to be tried before the Special Court in the following week.
In case of urgent Special Court proceedings the presidents of the Special Courts have to report immediately and independently of these regular meetings.
The cases of the Bremen Special Court will also be discussed at the presidents’ conference.
IV
I consider as essential in the sense of these instructions all cases which are of special importance, among them primarily—
a. Penal cases in which the death penalty or a long term of hard labor is to be expected.
b. Penal cases which are of primary significance for the protection of the population.