Metadata: Records of the Mayor of the Town of Szentendre, 1873-1944
Collection
- 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:
- V. 373
- Title:
- Records of the Mayor of the Town of Szentendre, 1873-1944
- Title (official language):
- Szentendre város polgármesterének iratai, 1873-1944
- Creator/accumulator:
- Mayor’s Office of the Town of Szentendre
- Date(s):
- 1873/1944
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 35.99 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection holds the records of the Mayor, the head of the administration of the town of Szentendre between 1873 and 1950. The records cover all segments of the life of Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of Szentendre, including, but not limited to, the following issues: payment of and various other matters concerning taxes, fees and revenues, lists of largest taxpayers, trade certificates of Jewish individuals and companies, permits for peddlers, travelling agents and merchants, procurement matters, violations of economic laws and other offences, various requests and petitions, permits of constructions, various matters concerning the industrial and commercial enterprises of Jews, including trade permits, personal matters of apprentices and employees, registries of merchants and tradesmen by professions, registry of tradesmen; cases pertaining to landed property; records of liquidation and auctions, matters of petty offences; conscription and other military matters, records of parliamentary and municipal elections; name magyarisation and naturalisation; orphans and guardianship, housing matters, agriculture, welfare and social aid, and cultural matters. The collection also contain information on matters of Jewish communities, including the decisions concerning temporary and permanent financial aid and support for Israelite schools and institutions and Jewish communities, regulations concerning Israelite registers of births, marriages and deaths, establishment of Jewish associations, protocols on the supervision of financial and administrative matters, accrued community tax and other tax issues.
Records from the years 1938-1944 include material concerning the implementation of Jewish Laws and other antisemitic bureaucratic procedures, including the withdrawal of trade licences and permits, quitting rental agreements of Jews, exclusion of Jews from the municipal committee and social organisations, discharge of Jewish private and state employees, registration and expropriation of Jewish landholdings; administrative procedures against Jewish communities, various lists and conscriptions of Jewish traders, companies, real estate, stocks and lands, as well as memoranda, requests and petitions reflecting the antisemitic public mood, denunciations, reports against and investigation of the cases of Jewish individuals and companies, withdrawal of weapon permits, protocols of supervision of Jewish shops, inns, factories, pharmacies and other companies, appointments of authorised wholesalers and traders (discrimination against Jewish companies), decisions concerning trade, citizenship requests of Jews, decisions concerning Jewish landholdings and requests for Jewish lands; documents concerning military labour service of Jewish men, social aid to Jewish individuals, including war widows and orphans and family members of military labour servicemen, conversion and name magyarisation cases, conscription lists, antisemitic incidents, and activities of extreme right wing organizations and parties.
The Holocaust-related part of the collection includes the implementation of the anti-Jewish decrees, internment of Jewish individuals, ghettoisation, expropriation of Jewish wealth, petitions of non-Jewish individuals and organisations for Jewish apartments, shops and other property, decisions of the municipal authorities concerning Jewish apartments and other assets, appointments of wardens and guardians, reports and inventories on factories, stores, shops, vehicles, etc. of Jews, exemption cases, reports and denunciations against Jews, dissolution of Jewish communities and institutions and decisions about their real estate and moveable property.
- Archival history:
- The records of the Mayor’s Office were taken over by its successor, the City Council of Szentendre in 1950. The City Council handed over the archival collection of the Mayor’s Office in the 1970s to the Pest County Archives. The collection was arranged and described in 1982, and with the addition of extra material the fonds reached its present form in 1998.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Mayor (polgármester) was the leading official of the towns and cities in Hungary. The mayor was elected by the Municipal Committee and his powers were regulated by the statutes created by the Committee as well as by Act XXI of 1886 (276. §.) The scope of authority of the Mayor was significantly broadened by Act XXX of 1930, which handed over most of the functions of the City Council to the Mayor’s Office. The Mayor’s Office included several departments according to its main administrative and economic functions.
- Access points: locations:
- Szentendre
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Aid and relief
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures
- Forced labour (of Jews)
- Health and medical matters
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Collaboration
- Holocaust--Ghettos
- Internment
- Jewish political activity
- Land registries
- Law enforcement
- Law enforcement--Gendarmerie
- Law enforcement--Police
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Migration--Immigration
- Military
- Passports and visas
- Plunder
- Plunder--Aryanisation
- Residency issues of Jews
- Statistics
- Taxation
- Trade and commerce
- Vital records
- Vital records--Birth records
- Vital records--Death records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is divided into eight provenance groups, numbered V.373. a-h., the most relevant of which are the Presidential records, 1910-1931 (V.373. a.); Administrative records, 1873-1944 (V.373. b.); Records of the Administrative Councillor (közigazgatási tanácsnok), 1886-1944 (V. 373. c.), which includes, but is not limited to, election records, military records, name magyarisation and naturalisation cases, trade matters, and records of social organisations; Records of the Technical Councillor (műszaki tanácsnok), 1885-1944, which includes building matters and records of petty offences, 1925-1944 (V. 373. f.); and Matters of registers of births, marriages and deaths (V. 373. h.). Within the thematic groups, the records are mostly arranged by basic numbers, re-started each year, with the exception of the records on trade matters and social organisations, which are arranged in alphabetical and thematic order.
- Finding aids:
-
Original alphabetical indexes and registries are available for the collection. Registry books for the administrative records between 1911 and 1944 are fragmentary.
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; 06-12-2015 (In cooperation with the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure)
