Metadata: District Trade Association of Dunajská Streda
Collection
- Country:
- Slovakia
- Holding institution:
- State Archive in Nitra, Šaľa branch
- Holding institution (official language):
- Štátny archív v Nitre, pracovisko Archív Šaľa
- Postal address:
- Petra Pázmáňa 27, Šaľa, 927 00
- Phone number:
- 00421 31 770 22 60
- Web address:
- http://www.minv.sk/?archivy
- Email:
- archiv.nr.sa@minv.sk
- Reference number:
- 15042
- Title:
- District Trade Association of Dunajská Streda
- Title (official language):
- Okresné živnostenské spoločenstvo v Dunajskej Strede
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Trade Association of Dunajská Streda
- Date(s):
- 1920/1949
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Slovak
- Extent:
- 6.05 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
-
The documents concern the activities of the tradesmen's association in the district of Dunajska Streda. Given the extremely high representation of Jews among tradesmen, there are a very large number of different types of Judaica in the fonds.
The official books provide the basic information on the activities of the Association bodies, the register of tradesmen, apprentices and assistants as well as on members of individual professional communities. Among the administrative registers one can use especially the minutes of the general and board meetings from 1925-1938, the minutes of the meeting establishing the preparatory committee for the establishment of the Association of Tradesmen (1935) and the minutes of the meetings of the social committee of the Association (1937-1938). The register books of tradesmen come from 1938-1945. They include register books of individual communities, the registers of members of individual departments (wood, innkeepers, leather, garments, foods, construction, iron and metal industries), the registers of tradesmen according to municipalities related to apprenticeship, and the registers of traders according to municipalities. Numerous Judaica can be found in the vast majority of 11 subject groups, most often relating to individual tradesmen.
The first group consists of statutes and organisational matters from 1924-1938. There are several types of minutes there, e.g. the minutes of the founding meeting of the District Trade Association in Dunajská Streda (1925) or the minutes of the assistants' meeting concerning the opening and closing hours of stores in Dunajská Streda (1936). The documents of the second subject group are similar, containing the annual activity reports from 1931-1938, for example, the report of the committee of the District Trade Association in Dunajská Streda about its activities in 1930 (1931).
The most important documents are those relating to specific tradesmen. They are stored in the fourth subject group, where there are reports about individual tradesmen from 1921-1938, for example, about dental technician J. Grünhut (1921). They also include documents on the withdrawal of trade licenses, for example, of textile merchant Ž. Stern and book printer Leopold Goldstein (1938).
The documents of the fifth subject group are similar. They include documents about apprenticeship from 1922-1938. They mention numerous Jewish tradesmen, such as tinsmith D. Lőwy (1922), cabinet maker A. Grünfeld (1927), tailor L. Adler (1929), butcher A. Löwinger Jr., stonemason A. Löwy, bookbinder J. Mendelson (all from 1932), and many others.
Documents from the sixth and seventh subject groups concern individual tradesmen, too. The sixth group contains graduation and apprenticeship certificates of numerous Jewish tradesmen from 1924-1938, e.g. butcher V. Grün (1925), iron merchant I. Reisz (1926), sculptor A. Löwi and bookbinder J. Mendelsohn (1933). The seventh subject group includes trade and license certificates from 1928-1937. They also concern individual Jewish tradesmen, for example, surrendering the trade licenses by J. Lőwinger, a dealer in feathers, raw leather and scrap iron, and J. Stern (1937), a tailor.
Individual Judaica can also be found in the eighth subject group - workbooks and work cards (1920-1938), e.g. the work card of J. Diamantová, a knitwear assistant (1937). One can also use the accounts from 1931-1935. They include information about Jewish entrepreneurs who provided goods to the Association, most often paper and printed material, bookbinding services, etc. These are the accounts of M. Adler, D. Weinberger, and L. Goldstein, printers, Armin Weisz, a book and paper merchant, and Armin Kornfeld, a dealer in clothing, bicycles, sewing machines and gramophones, all from Dunajská Streda.
- Archival history:
- In 1965, the fonds was taken over by the institution where it is now. After being taken over, an appraisal was carried out and the fonds was arranged. In 2006, the fonds was inventoried and a finding aid was created. At present, the fonds is classified as fully inventoried.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Trade associations were public corporations with private legal status which brought together the tradesmen and their assistants in individual districts. They began to form at the end of the 19th century in the period of Austro-Hungarian rule. After the establishment of Czechoslovakia, the Austrian laws, valid in the Czech lands at that time, were applied to them in the period of 1918-1924. The new Trade Act of 1924 extended the competencies of trade associations and granted them the right to participate in dealing with the business agenda. On the basis of this law, the District Trade Association was established in Dunajská Streda in 1925 with the authority over all municipalities in the political district. The Association was managed by its general meeting which elected the board headed by the chair. Following the annexation of the district of Dunajska Streda by Hungary as a result of the 1st Vienna Arbitration in November 1938, the Association operated under changed legal conditions. When the District became part of Czechoslovakia again in 1945, the Association resumed its activities. It finally ceased to exist in 1949.
- Access points: locations:
- Dunajska Streda
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided into official books. They include administrative books, registers, files (registry finding aids and files arranged in 11 subject groups) and accounting material which is the most extensive, being divided into accounting books and accounts. The files are arranged in chronological-numerical order.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Gaučík, Š.: Živnostenské spoločenstvá v Dunajskej Strede 1920 – 1949. Inventár, 2005 – 2011.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18