Metadata: District Office of Sokolov I
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- State District Archives Sokolov located in Jindřichovice
- Holding institution (official language):
- Státní okresní archiv Sokolov se sídlem v Jindřichovicích
- Postal address:
- Jindřichovice 1 - zámek, Kraslice, 358 01
- Phone number:
- 00420 352 695 254
- Email:
- soka-so@soaplzen.cz
- Reference number:
- 722
- Title:
- District Office of Sokolov I
- Title (official language):
- Okresní úřad Sokolov I
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Sokolov
- Date(s):
- 1867/1943
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Extent:
- 10.43 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains incomplete archive records of the political administration of the Sokolov district (judicial districts of Sokolov and, until 1913, Loket). The inventory refers to Jewish history issues in the following documents: Watching Do Gary, an anti-Slavic Hungarian Jew, 1919 (inv. 348/1919); a warning about preparations for anti-Jewish riots, 1919 (inv. 423/1919); the search for Russian Jewish students and Romanian nationals suspected of Bolshevik agitation, 1921 (inv. 150/1921); and a report on the insignificant extent of the anti-Jewish movement in the district, 1922 (inv. 420/1922).
- Archival history:
- The municipal archive in Loket took some documents from the Sokolov district office in 1951. Minor acquisitions from various institutions followed in subsequent years. A catalogue of presidium files was created in 1972.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- District offices began operating in 1850 and underwent many changes of name and remit. They were known as Bezirkshauptmannschaft (district head offices) from 1850–55, Bezirksamt (political and judicial district offices) from 1855–68, Bezirkshauptmannschaft again from 1868–1919, district political offices from 1919–28 and district offices from 1928–45. In 1913 the Bezirkshauptmannschaft of Loket and Sokolov were established by the division of a previous common political district. The functions of district offices were taken over by Landrat (district councillor) offices in the territory annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938.
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Education
- Education--Students
- Jewish political activity
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds of the District Office Sokolov I is divided into books and files. The files are internally divided into files concerning water management, files concerning roads, official files (without further specification), registry documents and presidium files.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is only partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Dvořák S., Okresní úřad Sokolov-presidiální spisy 1917-1933. Katalog, 1972, 160 s., ev. č. 4.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
