District Office of Frýdek

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Státní okresní archiv Frýdek-Místek

Scope and content:: The fonds consists of documents related to the Frýdek district. It includes the statutes of the Jewish community from 1920 (inv. n. 572, box 195) and the documents of the Jewish religious community in Frýdek-Místek from 1941-1942 (inv. n. 855, box 764). In the folder inv. n. 812, box 679, there are files of small businesses, list of Jewish enterprises and trustee administration 1902-1940. In the fonds, there are also documents on the Jewish company Neumann and sons, the textile factory Lemberger and the company Munk and sons. In the files of the domiciles and protectorate citizenship, there are documents of divesting Jews of citizenship in 1941 (inv. n. 733, box 565). The files describing the contact with Jews (inv. n. 777, box 625), lists of Jewish agricultural and forest property from 1920 (inv. n. 927, boxes 845 and 846) are also preserved. There are only fragments of the censuses 1869-1921. The fonds also includes further documents related to Jewish history, including: books of records on issued certificates of Czechoslovak citizenship 1927 - 1936 (inv. n. 2, 3), files on certificates of state citizenship 1939 - 1942 (inv. n. 732, box 549 - 561), certificates of Czechoslovak citizenship 1939-1942 (inv. n. 745, box 575 - 576), certificates of protectorate citizenship (inv. n. 746 - 747, box 577 - 578) and certificates of Aryan origin (inv. n. 857, 862, boxes 756, 766, 768).

Archival history:: When the District Office of Frýdek ceased to exist its documents and files were transferred to the Reich Archives in Opava. In 1948, the fonds was transferred back to the District National Committee. Documents from 1850-1868 are preserved with the only a few exceptions. Some files of the District office of Těšín from 1868-1901 are parts of the fonds (as priora). In 1967, the files of District court of Slezská Ostrava, files from 1919 - 1942 and the presidium files were transferred to the State District Archives in Frýdek-Místek. The temporary inventory was created in 1958 and more transfers of material followed (such as those of schools, religions, businesses, forests etc.) in the 1970s and 1980s. The fonds was inventoried in 1989. The catalogue of the presidium files 1901-1942 was created in 1958.

Administrative/biographical history:: The District Office of Frýdek was established in 1850. Its territory included the territories of the District Courts of Frýdek and of Moravská Ostrava. The political and judicial District Office of Frýdek was established in 1855 when the political and judicial administration were unified and functioned until 1868 when it ceased to exist and the territory was included to the newly established District Office in Těšín. In 1869, the statutory town of Frýdek was established and was subordinate directly to the Silesian Provincial Government in Opava. Those documents are part of the atchive of the town of Frýdek. In 1901, the District Office of Frýdek was re-established on the same territory excluding the town of Frýdek to 1928. In 1898, the District Court of Slezská (Polská at that time) Ostrava which was connected to the District office of Frýdek’s territory from 1904 to 1941 when is became part of the judicial district of Moravská Ostrava. In 1939, the municipalities around the rivers Lučina and Morávka were annexed to Poland, later to the Reich as “Olsagebiet“, In 1942, the Frýdek district was unified with the Místek district.

Subject terms:: Agriculture; Census records; Citizenship; Jewish community; Real estate; Residency issues of Jews; Trade and commerce; Trade and commerce--Clothing and textile trade; Vital records

System of arrangement:: The fonds is arranged as follows: official books are divided according to the court districts, files are divided into the periods 1850-1868, 1901-1928, 1929-1938, 1939-1942, census records, accounting material.

Finding aids:: Dannhoferová, Marie-Matějová, Alena: Okresní úřad Frýdek (1796) 1900-1942 (1954). Inventář, 1989, 184 s., ev. č. 488.; Svátek, Josef: Okresní úřad Frýdek-presidiální spisy 1901-1942, Katalog 1958, ev. č. 472.