Records of the Subprefect of the Temporarily United Counties of Bars and Hont, 1939-1944

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Country:: Hungary

Holding institution:: National Archives of Hungary, Pest County Archives

Holding institution (official language):: Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Pest Megyei Levéltára

Postal address:: Pf. 141., H-1450 Budapest, Hungary

Phone number:: +36 1 455 9050

Web address:: http://mnl.gov.hu/pml/

Email:: pml@mnl.gov.hu

Reference number:: IV.B. 701

Title:: Records of the Subprefect of the Temporarily United Counties of Bars and Hont, 1939-1944

Title (official language):: Bars és Hont k. e. e. vármegyék alispánjának iratai, 1939-1944

Creator/accumulator:: Subprefect’s Office of the Temporarily United Counties of Bars and Hont

Date(s):: 1939/1944

Language:: Hungarian

Extent:: 4.4 linear metres (44 boxes)

Type of material:: Textual material

Physical condition:: good

Scope and content:: The collection holds the records of the former counties of Bars and Hont pertaining to the Szob district and certain municipalities of the Ipolyság (Šahy) district from the period of 1939–1944, when the southern part of the two counties was under Hungarian rule. Major thematic groups in the collection include the personal matters of county and municipal employees, matters concerning local autonomy and organization of the county and the municipalities, administrative and special matters (köz- és szakigazgatási ügyek), as well as political matters.

Jewish-related files include cases of exemption from the Jewish laws, various requests and petitions written by Jewish individuals, reports and denunciations against Jews, cases of residence permits, citizenship cases, petitions for birth certificates and other family documents, the implementation of the anti-Jewish laws and instances of bureaucratic antisemitic measures, including the withdrawal of trade licences and permits of Jewish individuals and companies, and discrimination against Jews in social aid, quitting rental agreements of Jews, registration and expropriation of Jewish-owned real estate, internment and police custody (rendőri felügyelet) of Jewish individuals, cases of Jewish organizations, confiscation of radio receivers of Jews, lists of taxpayers and cases of forced labour of Jews.

Archival history:: According to the Article 11 of the Paris Peace Treaty of 1947 on the exchange of cultural goods and the subsequent Czechoslovak-Hungarian agreements on the exchange of archival records, the part of the administrative records of the subprefect and Administrative Committee of Bars and Counties pertaining to the municipalities that remained in Hungary after 1945 were handed over to Hungary. These included the records of the Szob district and certain municipalities of the Ipolyság district, namely Bernecebaráti, Helemba, Ipolydamásd, Ipolytölgyes, Kemence, Kóspallag, Letkés, Márianosztra, Nagybörzsöny, Nagymaros, Perőcsény, Szob, Szokolya, Vámosmikola and Zebegény. The material was taken to the Pest State Archives in 1950. The fonds of the Subprefect’s Office of Bars and Counties was sorted, arranged and divided into thematic groups during the 1950s and 1960s.

Administrative/biographical history:: The Subprefect (alispán) was the chief of the administration of Hungarian counties between 1870 and 1950. Elected by the municipal committees for a term of 6 years, subprefects were granted independent general administrative rights (önálló általános közigazgatási jogkör) by Act 42 of 1870. The administrative power and authority of subprefects were modified by Act 21 of 1886, Act 30 of 1929 and Act 22 of 1942. The term of subprefects was extended to ten years in 1929 and they were appointed by the Minister of the Interior from 1942. The main task of the subprefect was the implementation of the decisions of the Municipal Committee and the Small Assembly (kisgyűlés), as well as of governmental decrees. He was the superior of all offices and administrative bodies in the county, except special offices appointed directly by ministries. The administrative scope of authority of first instance of the subprefect (elsőfokú közigazgatási hatáskör) included the matters of social associations, regulating the press, and the office issuing passports. Besides, the subprefect was entitled to overrule the decisions of the chief constables (administrative heads of county districts) and the village clerks.

Bars and Hont counties were administrative units of Greater Hungary from the early middle ages until 1918. After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the counties were attached to the successor state Czechoslovakia, apart from a few villages in Hont County. According to the First Vienna Award on 2 November 1938, Hungary re-annexed the southern part of the counties, including the town of Léva (Levice) and it was named the Temporarily United Counties of Bars and Hont (Prime Minister’s Decree no. 9330 of 1938 and Law 34 of 1938). As a result of the Soviet-Hungarian armistice agreement of 20 January 1945, Hungary lost these territories again and the above mentioned Hont county villages were re-integrated into Nógrád-Hont County and in 1949 into Pest County (Prime Minister’s Decree no. 4330 of 1945 and Decree of the Council of Ministers no. 4343 of 1949).

Access points: locations:: Šahy; Szob

Subject terms:: Aid and relief; Antisemitism; Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation; Holocaust; Holocaust--Collaboration; Internment; Jewish community; Law enforcement; Law enforcement--Police; Passports and visas; Plunder; Plunder--Aryanisation; Residency issues of Jews; Trade and commerce; Vital records; Vital records--Birth records; Vital records--Death records; Vital records--Marriage records

System of arrangement:: The records of the Subprefect’s Office are arranged into thematic subgroups. The personal matters of county and municipal employees and the matters concerning local autonomy and organisation of the county (nos. 1-2.) are in alphabetical order, whereas the records of municipalities, administrative and special matters (köz- és szakigazgatási ügyek), as well as political matters (nos. 3-4.) are arranged chronologically, the number of files re-started each year.

Finding aids:: Ernő Lakatos, ed: A Magyar Állami Levéltárak fondjegyzéke, Vol. III. A Területi Levéltárak fondjegyzékei Part 13. A Pest Megyei Levéltár fondjainak jegyzéke. Budapest: Magyar Országos Levéltár, 1975.

Yerusha Network member:: Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives

Author of the description:: László Csősz; Hungarian National Archives; 08-11-2015 (In cooperation with the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure)

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