Metadata: Records of the Hungarian Royal Economic Superintendent of the Abony district, 1942-1944
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:
- VI. 217
- Title:
- Records of the Hungarian Royal Economic Superintendent of the Abony district, 1942-1944
- Title (official language):
- Abonyi járás m. kir. gazdasági felügyelőjének iratai, 1942-1944
- Creator/accumulator:
- Economic Superintendent’s Office
- Date(s):
- 1942/1944
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Extent:
- 1 fasc., 0.02 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection holds the classified records of the Economic Superintendent responsible for the Abony district from 1944. The material contains information on agricultural matters, especially on the registration and utilisation of Jewish landholdings and other aspects of antisemitic agrarian policy. According to Act XV of 1942 on Jewish-owned agricultural land and forests, also known as the Fourth Jewish Law, all Jews were obliged to report their landed property, which was registered by the Economic Superintendent’s Office. The registry book of Jewish real estate from the years 1942-1944 is file no. 5. in the collection.
- Archival history:
- After the dissolution of the economic superintendent’s offices in 1945, the surviving records were held in the county archives and in the early 1950s they were handed over to the Pest County Archives. The records of the Economic Superintendent of the Abony district were taken to the Nagykőrös branch archives. The collection reached its present form in 1979.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Established by Act XLII of 1921, the economic superintendents (gazdasági felügyelők) were state officials under the authority of the Ministry of Agriculture. Economic superintendents were agricultural experts whose task was to provide the ministry with information about the state of agriculture in a particular region and to facilitate the implementation of agrarian reforms and other state initiatives.
- Access points: locations:
- Abony
- System of arrangement:
- The collection holds the classified records arranged by basic number, registry books, inventories and the registry book of Jewish real estate from the years 1942-1944. (nos. 1-5)
- Finding aids:
-
Registry books are available for the collection.
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; 29-11-2015 (In cooperation with the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure)
