Metadata: Secret Records of the Presidium
Collection
- Country:
- Austria
- Holding institution:
- Tyrolean Regional Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Tiroler Landesarchiv
- Postal address:
- Michael-Gaismair-Straße 1, 6020 Innsbruck
- Phone number:
- 0043 512 508 3502
- Web address:
- https://www.tirol.gv.at/kunst-kultur/landesarchiv/
- Email:
- landesarchiv@tirol.gv.at
- Reference number:
- Jüngeres Gubernium - Geheime Präsidialakten
- Title:
- Secret Records of the Presidium
- Title (official language):
- Geheime Präsidialakten
- Creator/accumulator:
- Younger Gubernium
- Date(s):
- 1818/1919
- Date note:
- 1818/1880 (1919)
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 30 fascicle
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection “Secret Records of the Presidium” of the Younger Gubernium, held by the Tyrolean regional archive of Innsbruck, is a non-Jewish assemblage with a few Jewish-related documents.
This collection covers the period 1818–80 (1919) in three series and includes secret or privileged records of the presidium and later of the Governor’s Office (Statthalterei) for Tyrol and Vorarlberg. The documents deal with political and state police matters, which were filed separately from other administrative records of the Gubernium. The records were initially sorted by date but were later filed by subject, making the annually created journals and repertories (Kanzleibücher: Reihe Ia: Geheime Präsidialprotokolle und Index) of little help in understanding the collection [q.v. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 95]. It is therefore necessary to consult repertories B 276 and B. 204 (which include the current signatures) for an overview the content and structure of the collection. The indexes of repertory B 276 contain three Jewish-related references under I, J and Y, which lead to Jewish-related documents in Series I and Series II. According to repertory B 276, there are no Jewish references in Series III.
Each series is sorted by subject and numbered chronologically. Series includes such subjects as Popular Mood, Foreign Reports, Revolutionaries, Suspicious Strangers, Secret Societies, Religious Movement, Military, School and Factories. The old signatures from the out-of-date repertory B 276 can be used to locate the new signatures in repertory B 204.
There are records concerning Jewish people in the following subjects:
X Volksstimmung (Popular Mood), Series I; Signature: Präsidialakten, Geheime, 5a, 1818–49, Serie I/Sign X, Fasz. Nr. 3884; Signature: Präsidialakten, Geheime, 5b, 1818–59, Serie I/Sign X, Fasz. Nr. 3885; XI Auslandsberichte (Foreign Reports), Series I; Signature: Präsidialakten, Geheime, 6, 1818–49, Serie I/Sign XI–XV, Fasz. Nr. 3886; VI Krieg (War), Series II; Signature: Präsidialakten, Geheime, 1850–73, Serie II/Sign I–VI, Fasz. Nr. 3899; XVII Sozialisten und Kommunisten (Socialists and Communists); Signature: Präsidialakten, Geheime, 1850–73, Serie II/Sign XIV–XXI, Fasz. Nr. 3901.
Current signatures of Jewish-related documents can be found on pages 111–12 of repertory B 204 under “Geheime Präsidialakten”.
Jewish people are mentioned in the fascicles regarding other matters. Series II/Sign XIV-XXV contains a record of 1871 from the Home Secretary of Austria to the governor of Tyrol and Vorarlberg about propaganda movements in Vorarlberg and southern Germany, mentioning the cities of Lindau and Bregenz. The record states that a printer of Kreuzlingen near Constance, who was a red republican and editor of a radical magazine, was engaged in Prussian propaganda. Jewish people in Hohenems are also implicated in these propaganda movements and the police inspector of Bregenz is said to be communication with the Jewish community of Hohenems and in the employ of Prussia.
A document of Series I/Sign. XI-XV includes information about grievances relating to Baden and the lavish behaviour of its court. It states that the subjects lived in poverty and there was insufficient money for the maintenance of the university. There is also a critical mention of a Jewish person receiving an order to deliver 1000 “Malter” (one Malter: ~110 litres) of corn to Strasbourg without paying duties. Another document from 1817 deals with the same matter.
As there are no summaries or special finding aids concerning Jewish people, it is necessary to consult individual fascicles to find Jewish-related documents. It can be assumed that Jewish matters are only mentioned incidentally in these records, as in the two examples above. Fascicles may be ordered using the signatures listed.
- Archival history:
- This collection was transferred to the Tyrolean Regional Archive according to the regular document transfer process stipulated by national archival regulations.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Gubernium was established in 1763 to replace the former authority “Repräsentation and Kammer” (Representation and chamber) established by Empress Maria Theresa in the administrative reforms of 1749. It was the highest authority of the general administration of Tyrol and, from 1782, Vorarlberg. It was subordinated to the central authorities of the Habsburg territories in Vienna. As well as general administration, the Gubernium was responsible for matters of religion, education and the policing of trade and security. From 1782, political matters and the political police, which had been responsibilities of the Gubernium, were assigned to the governor or rectorate. Related documents are “Records of the Presidium” (“Akten des Präsidiums”) and “Secret records of the Presidium” (“Geheime Präsidialakten”). In 1782 the Austrian Anterior and Superior Board of Appeal (“O. ö. und v. ö. Revisorium”) were separated from the Gubernium, meaning that the administration and the judiciary were treated separately at the state level. Between 1806 and 1814 the Gubernium did not operate due to the Bavarian domination of Tyrol. In 1814, administrative responsibilities were reassigned to the Gubernium. In 1850 the Gubernium was superseded by the new authority “Governor’s Office for Tyrol and Vorarlberg” (“Statthalterei für Tirol und Vorarlberg”) [q.v. Beimrohr, Das Tiroler Landesarchiv und seine Bestände, 92].
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is divided into three series (Series I to III), including secret/privileged records of the presidium and later of the Governor’s Office (Statthalterei) for Tyrol and Vorarlberg.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is publicly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Rep. B 276, Rep. B 204
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Rebecca Muršec; Tyrolean Regional Archive Innsbruck; 2018