By the time Arthur Golf submitted his report Richard Walter Franke had been appointed as Leipzig's first University Archivist, on 1 October 1934.
He arranged for the most valuable contents of the archive to be moved to the cellars of the university's Augusteum building, which were believed (correctly as matters turned out) to be bomb-proof.
In June 1939, a couple of months before the actual outbreak of war, Franke switched to working for the National Student Organisation ("Reichsstudentenwerk") which had replaced the equivalent individual university based support operations in the context of the government's centralisation strategy.
[1] One prominent advocate for Franke's reinstatement was the Leipzig regional historian Rudolf Kötzschke(1867–1949) who was keen to accelerate the restoration of the university archive so that it might again be available as a research and teaching resource.
Most of the oldest records which had been dispersed to safer locations in the surrounding countryside had survived and the bomb-proof cellars of the Augusteum building had indeed protected the most valuable items in the collection, but the preserved items had for the most part subsequently been rescued by the Red army and taken to the Soviet Union - whether as war booty or simply for safe keeping was not immediately apparent.