 He acted as the Chief of Staff for the "Sonderauftrag Linz".On the next level of hierarchy, Reichsminister Hans Lammers, who was President of the Reich Chancellery, and Helmut von Hummel, Bormann's Special Assistant and "a particularly vicious Nazi", actually drew up the directives which set out the policies and procedures which governed the collecting process, both for confiscations and purchases.The financing and administration of the Linz program was their responsibility.