Papers of the Sibiu Imperial and Royal Police Directorate

Collection description

Holding institution (official language):: Arhivele Naționale ale României, Direcţia Judeţeană Sibiu

Postal address:: Arhivele Naționale ale României, Direcţia Judeţeană Sibiu, Strada Arhivelor nr. 3, cod 550164, jud. Sibiu, România

Scope and content:: The collection contains documents and registers from 1849 to 1865. The Imperial Directorate was divided into districts (Bezirke) and further into counties (Kreise). This collection contains the records of the Sibiu county directorate, which was charged with overseeing and assisting local and municipal police and military forces. The collection consists of registers, indexes and documents, arranged topically according to the functions they record, which mirror the functions of the police directorate overall: census of the population, maintaining public order, registration of foreigners, issue and validation of passports, registering of arrestees and detainees and problems of public morality. In many cases the documents recorded in the indexes and registers (1850-64) are extant and may be requested by year and document number, although not all of the documents have survived. For examples of material related to the Jewish population which may be found within the collection, see the entry for this collection at http://jbat.lbi.org/, subfield ‘contains’, and click on any link.

Archival history:: No information is provided as to when these papers were acquired by the National Archives.

Administrative/biographical history:: The Imperial and Royal Police Directorate (Polizeidirektion) was instituted after the revolutionary activities of 1848 and continued to exist during the period of the Austrian empire, but ended, at least in Sibiu, with the establishment of the dual monarchy in 1867.