Metadata: District Office of Hodonín
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives of Hodonín
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Hodonín
- Postal address:
- Koupelní 809/10, Hodonín, 695 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 518 343 306
- Email:
- soka_hodonin@mza.cz
- Reference number:
- 10
- Title:
- District Office of Hodonín
- Title (official language):
- Okresní úřad Hodonín
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Hodonín
- Date(s):
- 1804/1945
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Extent:
- 188.46 linear metres
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds contains written materials from the district political administration of Hodonín, including an overview of the assets and debt of Břeclav - Jewish Town 1884-1904. Attention should also be devoted to the associations’ cadastre and associations’ agenda of 1890-1946 - specifically Chevra Kadisha Hodonín 1922-1952, The Local Zionist Group in Hodonín 1936-1940, The Fitness Unit Makabi Hodonín 1924-1936, The Jewish Women’s Association of Hodonín 1920-1946 are mentioned; and the agenda involving issuance of passports of 1934-1939, care for refugees 1938-1939. Census records in the fond include the Jewish community in Hodonín (1857, 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910), the Jewish political community in Břeclav (1869, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910), the Jewish political community in Podivín (1869, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910) and the Jewish political community in Strážnice (1869, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910).
The following files from the Presidium series will be of particular interest: concerns about attacks against Jews in Strážnice as a result of a murder in Polná in 1899; antisemitic agitation of a collaborator from Moravská Nová Ves 1900; promotion of Herman Hirsch Kuffner, the mayor of Břeclav, to nobility status 1888-1890; promotion by Hodoňan magazine of a boycott of Jewish trades 1913; refugees from Galicia and Bukovina - lists 1914; report about antisemitic pogroms in the district in 1918; a resolution of the Jewish community in Břeclav expressing support for the emperor, dated 1 October 1918; agitation of the Jewish Zionist association in Prague Poale Zion 1919; compensation for damages for Jewish trader L. Goldschmied during unrest in Břeclav in 1919; the association Jüdischer national-demokratischer Verein in Opava in 1920; Bolshevik tendencies in the Jewish left-wing party Poale Zion and contacts in Hodonín 1921; members of the Jewish community in Břeclav - Communist uprisings against the Germans from Reich 1933; Jewish emigrants from Austria in Břeclav 1934; investigation of antisemitic writings and hanging of antisemitic flyers by a member of the Fascist community in Břeclav 1934; criminal denunciation on J. Čejka from Podivín for posting an antisemitic article and F. Dobrovolný from Podivín, a member of the National Fascist Community, for distributing an antisemitic flyer in 1936; the request of Association of Jewish Academicians in Brno to hold a public collection; the arrest of a German Jewish refugee at a crossing in Poštorná and an offer of espionage services 1936-1937; antisemitic posters in Čejč in 1938, a search by the police authority in Šumperk for a publisher of antisemitic flyers in 1938, a boycott of Jews in Čejč in 1939.
The following documents exist from the Holocaust period: Abolition of Jewish trades, abductions 1940-1941; the presidium files include among forbidden printed materials and books: Hanussen - a miraculous rabbi of the Third Reich 1939; Translations of Neo-Hebrew poetry 1940; as well as other documents in the presidium files: painting of display cases of Jewish merchants in Hodonín 1939; relationship of staff of the Protectorate Administration with Jews - circular 1940; arrest of two Jewish merchants by the Gestapo in Kněždub 1940; perceived undignified behaviour of foreign Jews in Strážnice 1940; investigation by the gendarmerie station in Podivín about a newspaper article about dealing with Jewish inhabitants 1941; ridiculing of the wearing of a Jewish Star of David in Rohatec 1941; confiscation of a hog from Jew L. Petrželka 1941; employees of the district office of Jewish and mixed race - investigation in 1941; reopening of the Jewish firm of A. Weinberger; “Aryanisation” of the firm of Z. Weiss in Moravská Nová Ves 1941; closing of Jewish shops in 1941; “Aryanisation” of the firms Weinberger Hodonín and Maryša Rohatec 1942; damage to monuments at a Jewish cemetery in Podivín 1942; a report from the gendarmerie station Podivín stating that the population wished for the expulsion of Jews 1942; use of money from the Hoitaš Hodonín Jewish account 1944.
- Archival history:
- The documents of the collection were taken over in three parts from 1951 to 1956 by the then Regional Archives in Uherské Hradiště and later by a branch of the State Archives in Uherské Hradiště. The State Regional Archives in Brno (today the Moravian Provincial Archives) handed over the census records, along with some of the files of the earlier period from the District Archives, in 1959. The fonds is not complete and it lacks practically all files until 1880, and there are also major gaps in the files from 1920 to 1928 as a result of inappropriate appraisal of the archive. Some time after the administrative reform in 1960 the fonds was transferred to the State District Archives in Hodonín.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The District Office of Hodonín (Göding in German) was founded in 1855 as a (Bezirksamt) political and judicial district office, meaning that it performed both political and judicial administration. In 1868 it was renamed as the Bezirkshauptmannschaft (district head office) of Hodonín, in 1918 to the district political administration of Hodonín and in 1928 to the district office of Hodonín. In 1945 the district office was abolished and its powers were assumed by the district national committee. The political district of Hodonín consisted of three judicial districts: the judicial district of Hodonín with the Jewish community in Hodonín, the judicial district of Strážnice with the Jewish political community in Strážnice and the judicial district in Břeclav with the Jewish political communities in Břeclav and Podivín.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Goldschmied, L
- Kuffner, Herman Hirsch
- Petrželka, L
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic boycotts
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic propaganda
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic publications
- Cemeteries
- Census records
- Communism
- Expulsion
- Fascism
- Fascism--Fascist parties and organisations
- Hevrah kadisha
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Yellow star
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Jewish political activity
- Law enforcement
- Law enforcement--Gendarmerie
- Maps
- Nazism
- Nazism--Nazi parties and organisations
- Nobility
- Passports and visas
- Plunder
- Plunder--Aryanisation
- Plunder--Forced closures
- Pogroms
- Rabbis
- Refugees
- Sports
- Sports--Sports clubs
- Trade and commerce
- Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist organisations and parties
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is structured as follows: I. Official books: A. Administrative, B. Records; II. Files: A. Registry finding aids, B. Files, C. Census records; IV. Other materials, V. Affiliated agendas.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Michálek V.-Nováková H.: Okresní úřad Hodonín,1857 - 1955. Inventář, 1960, s. 100, ev.č. 1.; Špičková M.: Okresní úřad Hodonín - presidiální spisy 1891 - 1918. Katalog, 1973, s. 30, ev.č. 396.; Špičková M.: Okresní úřad Hodonín - presidiální spisy 1918 - 1938. Katalog, 1970, s. 86, ev.č. 397.; Špičková M.: Okresní úřad Hodonín - presidiální spisy 1939 - 1945. Katalog, 1968, s. 53, ev.č. 398.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
