Metadata: Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Collection
- Country:
- Spain
- Holding institution:
- General Archive of the Administration
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archivo General de la Administracion
- Postal address:
- Calle Paseo de Aguadores 2. 28871 - Alcala de Henares
- Phone number:
- +34 918 892 950
- Email:
- aga@cultura.gob.es
- Reference number:
- ES.28005.AGA/2.5.1.1.1.2
- Title:
- Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Title (official language):
- Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores
- Creator/accumulator:
- Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Date(s):
- 1721/1984
- Language:
- Spanish; Castilian
- Extent:
- 7,244 boxes; 2,686 books
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection is made up of documents produced by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this case, we focus on documents classified in various sections: League of Nations, Diplomatic Instruments, Economic Policy, Technical Cooperation, Asia, Accounting, and Justice.
The information regarding Jews comprises the period 1920-1960. There is information about legislation and the Jews during the reign of Alfonso XIII (1922-1925) and about Spanish-speaking Jews and the Spanish Office of Cultural Relations (1925). There is information about the situation in Palestine between Arabs and Jews concerning the Western Wall (1931). In 1932, Sephardic Jews from Chile requested Spanish nationality. There is information about the damages suffered by Jewish-Spanish subjects in Morocco during the events of June 7, 1948 and about the entrance of Jews into Spain (1950). There is also information related to the World Union of Jewish Students (1957).
- Archival history:
- The collection was kept within the documentary fonds of the Spanish Ministry of State (= the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs) up to the establishment of the General Archive of the Administration in 1972.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Bourbon dynasty initiated an administrative reform in Spain. The instrument used for this purpose was the Office Secretary. In 1705, the Universal Office Secretary was divided in two parts: one would be responsible for War-Financial matters and another for the rest. In 1714, these Secretaries (Ministries) became four: State, War, Navy-Indies, and Justice. The Secretary of State and the Office of State Affairs were in charge of foreign affairs. During the eighteenth century up to the administrative reforms by Javier de Burgos in 1834, the Secretary of State (also known as First Secretary) presided over the Supreme Board of State (Junta Suprema de Estado), created by Floridablanca. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Central Administration was composed of five departments: State, War, Navy, Justice, and Finance. In 1830, the Ministry of State was subdivided into Undersecretary, Policy, Correspondence and Accounting. Its responsibilities were increased during this century, and in 1901, it had ten sections. In November 1928, Primo de Rivera eliminated the Ministry, but in 1930, it recovered its administrative independence. Franco’s regime changed the organic structure of the Ministry of State, as well as its traditional name, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Access, restrictions:
- Free access regulated by the current legal environment on access to Spanish historical archives (law 16/1985 of Spanish Historical Patrimony).
- Finding aids:
- Data on the collection are also available at the website of the Spanish National Archives (PARES).
- Links to finding aids:
- https://pares.culturaydeporte.gob.es/inicio.html
- Yerusha Network member:
- Spanish National Research Council
- Author of the description:
- Marina Girona Berenguer; ILC, CSIC; October 2019