Metadata: Centre of Financial Institutions, Records of the Director’s Office, 1916-1950
Collection
- Country:
- Hungary
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Hungary, National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- Postal address:
- Budapest, Bécsi Kapu tér 2-4., 1014
- Phone number:
- +36 1 225 2843
- Web address:
- http://mnl.gov.hu/
- Email:
- info@mnl.gov.hu
- Reference number:
- Z 91
- Title:
- Centre of Financial Institutions, Records of the Director’s Office, 1916-1950
- Title (official language):
- Pénzintézeti Központ, Igazgatósági iratok, 1916-1950
- Creator/accumulator:
- Centre of Financial Institutions
- Date(s):
- 1916/1950
- Extent:
- 15 boxes, 1.8 linear metres
- Scope and content:
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The collection holds selected files of the Director’s Office at the Centre of Financial Institutions: minutes of board meetings and the appendices of cases presented at the meetings. Topics discussed include the dismissal of Jewish banking employees after the Jewish laws (Acts XV of 1938 and Act IV of 1939), the circumstances and consequences of the confiscation of Jewish landholdings (Act XV of 1942), mortgage and bank loans of Jews (Boxes 5-6), as well as the dismissal of Jewish banking employees in 1944. Protocols of April 26, May 31 and June 27 include the names and personal data (age, pension years and annual pension funds) of 77 Jewish individuals (Box 12).
Box 15 contains lists of the board members of several financial institutions in Hungary between 1931 and 1950, including Angol-Magyar Bank Rt., Belvárosi Takarékpénztár Rt., Budapest Székesfőváros Községi Takarékpénztár Rt., Magyar Általános Hitelbank Rt., Magyar Jelzálog Hitelbank Rt., Magyar Nemzeti Bank Rt., Magyar Leszámítoló és Pénzváltó Bank Rt., Magyar-Olasz Bank Rt., Magyar Királyi Postatakarékpénztár, Nemzeti Hitelintézet Rt., and Pesti Hazai Első Takarékpénztár Egyesület Rt.
- Archival history:
- The pre-1945 records of the Centre of Financial Institutions were taken to the National Archives in two parts, one in 1952-1953 and the other in 1965.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Centre of Financial Institutions was established by Act XIV of 1916. Operating in a cooperative form, its primary objective was strengthening the financial system weakened due to the crisis during WWI and supporting or liquidating the collapsing financial institutions. It was also an attempt to limit the independence of commercial banks and to put the financial transactions under state control. After 1945, the Centre of Financial Institutions played a major role in the nationalisation of the banking system and functioned as supervisory authority.
- Access points: locations:
- Hungary
- Yerusha Network member:
- Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives
