Metadata: Public Prosecutor’s Office of Plzeň
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State Regional Archives in Plzeň
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní oblastní archiv v Plzni
- Postal address:
- Sedláčkova 44, Plzeň, 306 12
- Phone number:
- 00420 377 236 263
- Web address:
- http://www.soaplzen.cz/
- Email:
- podatelna@soaplzen.cz
- Reference number:
- 10069
- Title:
- Public Prosecutor’s Office of Plzeň
- Title (official language):
- Státní zastupitelství Plzeň
- Creator/accumulator:
- Public Prosecutor’s Office of Plzeň
- Date(s):
- 1800/1949
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 41.74 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains materials from the activity of the Public Prosecutor in Plzeň, in particular criminal press files ref. Ss and Tls, criminal files ref. St including indices, presidium files and regulations. For the study of Jewish history of particular interest will be the criminal files committed by the press from 1897-1941 (incendiary and insulting anti-Semitic articles), which are made accessible by a catalogue from 1960. The actual catalogued files are located in 17 boxes (call № II/4, box № 14, 1897; ref. Ss, box № 27-37, 1898-1923; ref. Tls, box № 38-42, 1924-1941). Attention should also be paid to Declared dead files which, although not created until 1948, do contain important information about research into persecution of the Jews in 1938-1945 (ref. Nst, box № 145).
- Archival history:
- In 1947, i.e. at a time when the office still existed, some of the documents until 1923 were handed over to the Regional Archives in Plasy. Later documents were transferred to the State Archives in Plzeň from the District Public Prosecutor in 1958. In 1960, these parts of the fonds (1855-1923) were arranged and inventoried. In October 1962, further documents from 1872-1948 were handed over to the archive, these being arranged and inventoried in 1963. Apart from these two parts, the fonds also contains a part from 1857-1949 which has not yet been inventoried. The whole fonds is located in the Regional State Archives in Plzeň.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Public Prosecutor´s Office of Plzeň was an office of state prosecution. It performed its activity from 1850 to 1949. It participated in preparation of investigation of crimes and offences and in main court hearings. Territorial changes in later years corresponded to the development of the sphere of competence of the Regional Court. The Public Prosecutor in Plzeň was dissolved in 1949 as part of the so-called lay judiciary approach.
- Access points: locations:
- Plzen
- System of arrangement:
- Roughly two thirds of preserved archival records in the fonds are made accessible by means of two Finding aids, criminal press matters also by means of a Catalogue. A third of the fonds remains unarranged. Almost the complete group of Criminal press files has been preserved, a substantially appraised group of Criminal files, in both cases including the respective Registry finding aids, also Files of Bory Men’s prison, Presidium files and Regulations.
- Finding aids:
- Hledíková Z: Státní zastupitelství Plzeň, 1855-1939 (1942). Inventáře a katalogy Státního archivu v Plzni, Plzeň, 1960, 19 s., ev. č. 22; Pelant J: Státní zastupitelství Plzeň, 1872-1948. Inventáře a katalogy fondů Státního archivu v Plzni, Plzeň, 1963, 22 s., ev. č. 175; Hledíková Z: Tiskové trestní spisy Státního zastupitelství v Plzni, 1897-1941. Katalog. Inventáře a katalogy Státního archivu v Plzni, Plzeň, 1960, 127 s., ev. č. 23.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.