Metadata: Public Prosecutor’s Office of Klatovy
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:
- 10265
- Title:
- Public Prosecutor’s Office of Klatovy
- Title (official language):
- Státní zastupitelství Klatovy
- Creator/accumulator:
- Public Prosecutor’s Office of Klatovy
- Date(s):
- 1867/1955
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 12.99 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains materials from the activity of the Public Prosecutor in Klatovy, this being presidium files and in particular criminal files ref. St including indices. For the study of Jewish history, the following files will be of particular interest: presidium files from 1938-1939, group 3, inv. № 80, box № 9, call № Pres 350/1938 and Pres 397/1939 (List of reports on political matters in the circuit of the Public Prosecutor in Klatovy, 1938-1939), where information can be found on anti-Semitic attacks and provocation (e.g. 14.5.1938 in Kašperské Hory). Attention should also be paid to criminal files ref. St, for example inv. № 91, box № 50, call № St 400/31 and box № 51, call № 609/31, where information can be found on anti-Semitic provocation as well as the inverse, insults directed towards the German minority by citizens of Jewish origin.
- Archival history:
- After dissolution of the Public Prosecutor in Klatovy in 1949, its registry was handed over to the successor organisations, the District Public Prosecutors in Klatovy and in Domažlice. Most of the documents were handed over to the Regional State Archives in Plzeň in September 1971. More documents were transferred in 1999-2004. They were gradually arranged in the archive. Their definitive arrangement and inventory was completed in 2004.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Public Prosecutor in Klatovy was an office of public prosecution. It was established in 1928 in relation to establishment of the Regional Court in Klatovy. It participated in preparation of investigation of crimes and offences and in main court hearings. In May 1941, the Public Prosecutor in Klatovy was dissolved, similarly to the Regional Court in Klatovy. Its activity was not renewed in the original territorial scope of competence until after the war. Both institutions were dissolved for good in February 1949.
- Access points: locations:
- Kašperské Hory
- Klatovy
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Crime
- Legal matters
- Finding aids:
- Řeháček K: Státní zastupitelství Klatovy. Inventář. Inventáře a katalogy fondů Státního oblastního archivu v Plzni, Plzeň, 2004, 28 s., ev. č. 520.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.