Archives of the Maison Goldschmidt frères

Collection description

Holding institution:: National Archives of Belgium 2 – Joseph Cuvelier Repository

Holding institution (official language):: Archives Générales du Royaume 2 – Dépôt Joseph Cuvelier

Scope and content:: This fonds consists of bookkeeping and accounting records, documents concerning liquidations, reports, receipts (quittances), registers, invoices, contracts, securities, etc. We also find newspapers, correspondence, personal papers and publications. The material was produced by the Maison Goldschmidt frères and its managers.

Archival history:: The fonds was transferred to the General State Archives on 5 January 1925.

Administrative/biographical history:: The company Goldschmidt frères was created on July 1, 1904 by three brothers and partners: Richard, Alfred and Hugo Goldschmidt. The business was active in the trade in currency and public funds, the execution of trading orders of the Brussels stock exchange, as well as other transactions related to the profession of stockbroker. The headquarters of this company was located in Brussels at rue de la Sablonnière 24. The business operated until 1919, when it was sequestered. (Recueil des actes et documents relatifs aux sociétés commerciales. Annexes Moniteur, 1904, tome LXI, p. 940, acte no. 2851 ; C. Bulte & S. Soyez, Fonds van sekwesterarchieven – Fonds des archives des séquestres XII : Inventaire des archives des agents de change allemands (1879-1923), I 335-341, Bruxelles, ARA-AGR, 2002.)

Subject terms:: Financial matters; Financial matters--Banks, banking, and bankers; Financial records; Publishing; Trade and commerce; World War I

Finding aids:: There is a hand written and typed (contemporary) inventory. See also the recent C. Bulte & S. Soyez, Fonds van sekwesterarchieven – Fonds des archives des séquestres XII : Inventaire des archives des agents de change allemands (1879-1923), I 335-341, Bruxelles, ARA-AGR, 2002 and H. Coppejans-Desmedt, Gids van de bedrijfsarchieven bewaard in de openbare depots van België. Guide des Archives d’Entreprises conservées dans les dépôts publics., Brussel, ARA-AGR, 1975.