Tanvald Textile Companies, Joint-Stock Comp., Tanvald (Tannwald)

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Státní oblastní archiv v Litoměřicích

Title (official language):: Tanvaldské textilní závody, a.s., Tanvald (Tannwald)

Language:: Czech; English; Danish; French; Italian; Hungarian; German; Polish; Swedish

Scope and content:: The fonds contains the usual corporate documents (articles, reports of general meetings, property matters, accounting, inventory, technical documentation of constructions, products, fabric samples etc.). As the owners were Jewish, some records relate to this in particular: Inv. No. 62 - Jewish property of the owners of the company Lederer & Wolf and Tanvald cotton mill from 1939 to 1943; inv. No. 74 Debt relief of TPB companies, Lewolf, “Aryanisation” and creation of Tanvald textile plants inc. (report, correspondence) 1938-1946; inv. No. 209 Personnel affairs - Theodor Löff, branch manager in Vienna, removal from office on racial grounds from 1930 to 1939.

Archival history:: Originally, the documents relating to the activity of Tanvald textile mill Inc. were probably stored at individual plants in Tanvald, Vesec u Liberce and Raškovice. After the nationalisation and integration into SEBA, national corporation, documents were handed over to the registry office of the national corporation and in 1960 they were arranged into three relatively separate sets. The inventories were extended and they were handed over to the company archive, from where they were transferred to the State Regional Archives Litoměřice in 1998. Part of the archival collection had already been transferred from the archive of KOLORA Semily, national corporation, in 1989. Both parts of the fonds were subsequently joined and an inventory was created for them in 2002.

Administrative/biographical history:: The Tanvald cotton spinning mill was founded in 1828. It was subsequently acquired by Johann Mayer from Vienna. In 1900 the company was taken over by Gottlieb Lederer and Julius Wolf, public shareholders of the company Lederer and Wolf in Vesec. The joint stock company was based in Vienna, the branch plant was in Tanvald; the business activity was manufacturing of all kinds of textile industry products. The company shareholders also owned the mill in Vesec near Liberec and a mechanical weaving factory in Raškovice near Frýdek-Místek. These businesses formed a concern that the German authorities regarded as a Jewish property. In 1939 commissioner manager Hans Denk was appointed. After the Second World War, the company was nationalised and first incorporated into the KOLORA Semily, national corporation, and from 1948 into SEBA cotton mill, national corporation, Tanvald.

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Manufacturing; Plunder; Plunder--Aryanisation; Trade and commerce; Trade and commerce--Clothing and textile trade

System of arrangement:: The fonds is arranged as follows: IA. Administration and management of the enterprise - statutory and administrative affairs; IB. Issues of property rights; IC. Statistics and information; ID. Auditing matters; II.A. Employees - employment status and the rotation of staff; IIB. Social affairs; IIC. Employee organisations; III. Accounting and reporting; IV. Purchases and sales; V. Production; VIA. Technical documentation for construction; VIB. Technical documentation of machinery.

Finding aids:: Králová Eliška, Tanvaldské textilní závody, a.s., Tanvald, 1801-1958, inventář 2002, 28 s., AP č. 3956