State Secretary of the Duchy of Warsaw, State Secretary of the Kingdom of Poland, Royal Chancellery [‘His Imperial Majesty’s Own Chancellery for the Kingdom of Poland’]

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Country:: Poland

Holding institution:: Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw

Holding institution (official language):: Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych w Warszawie

Postal address:: ul. Długa 7, 00-263 Warszawa

Phone number:: (+ 48 22) 831-54-91; (+ 48 22) 93, 635-45-32

Web address:: www.agad.archiwa.gov.pl

Email:: secretariat@agad.gov.pl

Reference number:: 1/196

Title:: State Secretary of the Duchy of Warsaw, State Secretary of the Kingdom of Poland, Royal Chancellery [‘His Imperial Majesty’s Own Chancellery for the Kingdom of Poland’]

Title (official language):: Sekretariat Stanu Księstwa Warszawskiego, Sekretariat Stanu Królestwa Polskiego, Kancelaria Własna Mości do Spraw Królestwa Polskiego

Creator/accumulator:: State Secretary of the Duchy of Warsaw

Date(s):: 1807/1876

Language:: Polish; Russian; French

Extent:: 35 linear metres (3,991 folders)

Type of material:: Textual material

Physical condition:: good

Scope and content:: The extant units include: correspondence, requests to the throne, memorials, decrees, minutes and records of meetings of the Duchy of Warsaw’s State Secretary, chancellery diaries, a copy of the 1818 Sejm diary (parliamentary record), materials for use of historians of the organisation of the Free City of Krakow, materials for use in research into social, economic, religious and cultural issues.

The archive is divided into eight sections: the monarch and auxiliary bodies and authorities; the superior authorities and interdepartmental authorities of the Kingdom of Poland; special-purpose interdepartmental bodies; the judicial authority; home affairs; treasury; religious denominations and education; and military and war- or repression-related affairs.

Issues concerning Jews are dispersed across the sections, as e.g. in the State Secretaries’ correspondence. Jewish surnames also appear in (sporadic) applications for permission to resettle in the empire, lawsuits etc. 35 units refer to Jewish-related affairs in their titles:

Ref. no. 15: Turkułł, Ignacy: Secretary of State; his correspondence with [Mr] Kossecki.

Ref. no. 178/65: Antisemitic action of peasants in the commune of Czerwone, Małopołock entail and commune of Turośl.

Ref. no. 107/63: Jewish cemetery in Warsaw; expropriation of the plot of land in view of its extension.

Ref. no. 528/64: Kosher fees; motion for resumption.

Ref. no. 583/59: [Mr] Tugensfreund’s request for furnishing of Jewish schools and improvement of coreligionists’ lives.

Ref. no. 1/20: Jews: released from fees in the city of Krakow.

Ref. no. 2/37: Jews: standards concerning them.

Ref. no. 507/60: Jewish petition against reducing the number of streets accessible to Jews.

Ref. no. 212/64: Application from the manufacturer Mamelok for admittance at the customs chambers of Jews in the capacity of manufacturers’ representatives on equal terms with Christians.

Ref. no. 231/65: Request from Jews for exemption from fees for plots at a fair in Warsaw.

Ref. no. 552/65: Askinazel, Esel, rabbi of Lublin; granted hereditary honorary citizenship.

Ref. no. 241/60: Abramowicz, Pese-Miriam; for replacement by another recruit of her son drafted into the army.

Ref. no. 185/66: Aksenfeld, Curator of the synagogue; for assistance in collecting a debt from Atanazy Czupjatow [Chupyatov], a merchant.

Ref. no. 416/60: [Mrs] Baran (a Jewish woman); for a pardon for her husband in a matter of contraband.

Ref. no. 242/51: Basista, Lejba, detainee; for changing the date of a lawsuit.

Ref. no. 503/61: Berkowicz, Estera; for release of her husband Abraham from military service.

Ref. no. 484/60: Bernstein, Chaim; relocation to the empire.

Ref. no. 97/61: Cederbaum, Sender; relocation to the empire.

Ref. no. 10/59: Dawidsohn, Ignacy; permission to purchase a landed estate.

Ref. no. 121/64: Diner, Abram; relocation to the empire.

Ref. no. 413/58: Diner, Salomon, vel Fuehrer, vel Rubinstein, an émigré; for reprieve.

Ref. no. 496/62: Epstein, Dawid Nuchim Szmulowicz; explanation of a court sentence.

Ref. no. 347/65: Epstein, Herman; for acknowledgment by the Tsar of the right of hereditary nobility.

Ref. no. 293/66: Epstein, Mikołaj, son of Stanisław, deportee in the katorga; delivery of lawsuit petition.

Ref. no. 498/60: Epstein, Wolf; indignity.

Ref. no. 551/61: Fromberg, Fradla; for grace for her sons deported to Siberia.

Ref. no. 6/27: Glücksberg; author of a description of Tsar Alexander I.

Ref. no. 452/66: Hochman, Fajwel, political prisoner at Bobruisk; delivery of lawsuit petition.

Ref. no. 603/65: Hurwitz, Maurycy, a spy; confidential allowance to his widow Franciszka.

Ref. no. 498/60: Icker, a married couple and their daughters Rysia and Chana; an indignity case.

Ref. no. 254/57: Pik, Jakub; granting of honorary citizenship.

Ref. no. 23/66: Rosenblum, Beniamin; delivery of lawsuit petition – action brought by Ludwik Libas.

Ref. no. 119/65: Rotwand, Jakub; delivery of lawsuit petition – action brought by Henryk Gąsiorowski.

Ref. no. 379/58: Serwiański, Icek Lejbowicz, émigré; reprieve.

Ref. no. 246/65: Tugendhold, Jakub, junior censor; old age pension.

Administrative/biographical history:: The State Secretariat of the Duchy of Warsaw was set up in 1807 to act as an intermediary between the authorities of the Duchy of Warsaw and the Dresden-residing Duke of Warsaw (also king of Saxony). The responsibilities of the secretary included authentication of the king’s signatures receiving reports from the council of the state and council of ministers and forwarding them to the king and transferring legal acts issued by the king to the relevant departments. In 1814 the records of the secretariat were transported from Dresden to Warsaw and two years later moved to St Petersburg. The task of the minister – Secretary of State of the Kingdom of Poland, appointed under the Kingdom’s Constitution of 1815 – was to present to the tsar the issues communicated by the kingdom’s administrative council and council of the state. Once the secretariat was dissolved in 1866, His Imperial Majesty’s Own Chancellery for the Kingdom of Poland took over its records. The chancellery was eventually abolished in 1876.

Access points: locations:: Poland; Warsaw

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Cemeteries; Citizenship; Education--Schools and universities; Kashrut; Legal matters; Military; Real estate; Residency issues of Jews; Trade and commerce

System of arrangement:: The archive is divided into eight sections: the monarch and auxiliary bodies and authorities; the superior authorities and interdepartmental authorities of the Kingdom of Poland; special-purpose interdepartmental bodies; the judicial authority; home affairs; treasury; religious denominations and education; and military and war- or repression-related affairs.

Finding aids:: Online finding aid available.

Inventory available in the reading room of the archive.

Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnych w Warszawie, Przewodnik po zasobie, vol. 2: Epoka porozbiorowa, ed. F. Ramotowska, (Warsaw, 1998).

Małgorzata Kośka, Materiały do dziejów Żydów na ziemiach polskich w XIX w. w zbiorach Archiwum Głównego Akt Dawnych, w: Źródła archiwalne do dziejów Żydów w Polsce, ed. Bolesław Woszczyński and Violetta Urbaniak (Warsaw, 2001), 31-56.

Yerusha Network member:: Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

Author of the description:: Marcin Wodziński; University of Wroclaw; 2015

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