Royal Hungarian Locotenential Council, Records from 1861, Department I Internal Matters

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára

Title:: Royal Hungarian Locotenential Council, Records from 1861, Department I Internal Matters

Title (official language):: Magyar Királyi Helytartótanács, 1861. évi iratok, I. Kebelbeli Osztály

Scope and content:: The records created by the Internal Matters Department mostly concern the personal matters of the officials of the Locotenential Council. However, it also contains files of the liquidation of private businesses (csődper), including legal processes against quite a few Jewish-owned firms. Companies involved include Herskó Hartmann (unit no. 96), Dávid Löbl (no. 100), János Polatsek (no. 104.), Márk Rechnitzer (no. 106), and Márk Langsfeld (no. 110). Besides, the material contains the records of a number of executory procedures (végrehajtás), including the matters of debtors M. Eisenberger and Ignác Gréger (no. 116-117).

Archival history:: The files of the dissolved Locotenential Council were handed over to the newly established Royal Hungarian Ministry of the Interior in 1867. Section D (Records of the Era of Absolutism) was created in 1952. The first finding aid was published in 1959. Since then, the collection has been rearranged and selected several times.

Administrative/biographical history:: Established in 1724, the Locotenential Council (Helytartótanács/Ungarische Statthalterei) was the central administrative body in Hungary under the Habsburg rule before the period of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy (1867-1918). For a short period following the Hungarian War of Independence in 1849, the Locotenential Council (Helytartótanács/Ungarische Statthalterei), the Court Chancelleries (Magyar és Erdélyi Udvari Kancellária) and the local autonomies were dissolved and replaced by imperial ministries seated in Vienna. The so-called October Diploma (imperial decree) of 20 October 1860 signalled the end of the era of centralisation. The Vienna-based ministries were disbanded, and their function was taken over by the reorganised Locotenential Council and the Court Chancelleries. The successors of the Locotenential Council were the independent Royal Hungarian Ministries established after the Compromise of 1867, most of all the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Religious and Educational Affairs.

Access points: persons/families:: Eisenberger, M; Gréger, Ignác; Hartmann, Herskó; Langsfeld, Márk; Löbl, Dávid; Polatsek, János; Rechnitzer, Márk

Finding aids:: Tuza Csilla, ed. Az abszolutizmuskori levéltár. Repertórium. Vol. 2. Budapest: MOL, 2005.