Metadata: District Office of Hlohovec
Collection
- Country:
- Slovakia
- Holding institution:
- State Archive in Nitra
- Holding institution (official language):
- Štátny archív v Nitre
- Postal address:
- Novozámocká 273, Ivanka pri Nitre, 951 12
- Phone number:
- 00421 37 656 4263
- Web address:
- http://www.minv.sk/?archivy
- Email:
- archiv.nr@minv.sk
- Reference number:
- 7227
- Title:
- District Office of Hlohovec
- Title (official language):
- Slúžnovský úrad v Hlohovci
- Creator/accumulator:
- District Office of Hlohovec
- Date(s):
- 1854/1922
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Slovak
- Czech
- Extent:
- 9.37 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The documents of the fonds concern the territory which was under the authority of the District Office in Hlohovec. They refer to the entire population regardless of ethnicity or religion. Due to the existence of numerous Jewish communities in the district, several Judaica can be found in the documents.
Within the unavailable part of the fonds from the first period of the existence of the Office (1850-1861), only a fragment of the presidium files from 1856-1860, besides the registry finding aids, has been preserved in the group of the public documents. Judaica are more likely to be found in the civil-law documents from 1854-1860, mainly in the group of civil disputes and the group of estates of the deceased, orphans, and guardians.
From the second period (1872-1922), the files have been preserved only from 1919-1922. They are divided into the confidential, presidential, and administrative, of which only a fragment has been preserved which is fully available.
The confidential documents have only been preserved from 1920. Most Judaica in this agenda concern security matters, e.g. a notice about leaflets of Hungarian irredentists addressed to Jews in Slovakia, searches for several persons including Jews (D. O. Gar, J. Rosenblum from Vienna), verifying the reliability of persons (e.g. merchant A. Hoffmann from Hlohovec). Judaica are also highly likely to be found in various lists, such as the list of residents in the district who were hostile to Czechoslovakia. Some Judaica also concern the economic activities of the Jews, e.g. a permission for the Daniel Eisler and Son Comp. from Hlohovec to make telephone calls, or imposing fines (e.g. to publisher Elias Braun from Malý Báb). Confidential documents include circulars of superordinate authorities which are of a more general nature, e.g. the establishment of the Central Office for religious affairs of the Jewish orthodox communities.
The largest part of the documents includes presidential files which have been preserved from 1919-1922. Plenty of Judaica concern the invasion of Slovakia by the Hungarian Red Army in 1919 and the related measures of the authorities, often aimed at Jews, too. These include, for example, an order of the county head to monitor anti-Slovak activities of Jews (1919) and, in particular, the internment of persons for Bolshevik agitation, among whom were also numerous Jews (e.g. Lazár Klein from Hlohovec, 1919), and their release (Armin Šós, 1919), including lists of persons from the district interned in 1919.
A large part of the presidential agenda is related to the security measures of the authorities. It includes numerous search warrants (e.g. H. Bauer and A. Weiss for destroying the official board in Malá Bába, 1919, the Hungarian national Mózesz Kecskés, 1922, the Communist agitator Móric Horovitz and his banishment from Czechoslovakia, 1922), arrest warrants (A. Blum for spreading illegal leaflets and unlawful possession of weapons, 1921), inquiries about persons' reliability (e.g. I. Spitzer, a reserve lieutenant, from Hlohovec, 1921) or the nationality of the owners and administrators of pharmacies (1921). These documents also include a notice about the arrival of Hungarian nationals of the Jewish nationality in Slovakia (1921).
Judaica are also presumed to be found in numerous periodic situation reports and reports of the main district head and the gendarmerie stations about the political situation. Relevant are also, for example reports of gendarmerie stations on the existence of Jewish sections of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1922) and their negative reports about the existence of the Antisemitic League (1921).
The engagement of the Jewish population in the self-government and political life is recorded, for example in lists of members of the Hlohovec local council (1921) and lists of political parties and chairmen of their local organisations in Hlohovec and the surroundings (1921).
Another important document is the request of the Jewish Religious Community in Hlohovec for the Jewish school to be left by the army (1921). Among the Judaica there is also a report on the dissatisfaction of the population with the owner of the tobacco store I. Wertheimer (1919).
Only a fragment of the administrative documents from 1920-1922 has been preserved. The most numerous Judaica concern economic issues. These include, in particular, frequent applications for issuing and renewing trade certificates (e.g. butcher Jozef Schlesinger from Pastuchov, merchant Eugen Zweig from Hlohovec, 1921). There is also plenty of information on activities of Jews in agriculture, on activities of big landowners (e.g. Šimon Schwitzer, 1921), and on tenants. Some documents are related to their business activities, such as fining illegal dealing in sugar (Adolf Fischer, 1921).
Other documents relate to construction activities (Šalamon Sessler in Hlohovec, 1921) and the work of district physicians (Artúr Bleyer, 1921), including the submission of official medical reports (1921). Thematically important are documents on activities of associations, such as permitting a concert and a ball to the Jewish Women's Society in Hlohovec (1921).
There are also numerous applications for passports in the fonds, including those of Jewish applicants.
- Archival history:
- The documents of the creator from 1850-1861 were deposited in the Archives of Nitra County in the early 1860s. In 1952, they were taken over by the predecessor of the institution where they are now. The second part of the fonds from 1872-1922 was originally taken over by the District Archives in Trnava, the branch in Hlohovec, from where it was transferred, in 1962, to the predecessor of the institution where it is now. From that period, only documents from 1919-1922 have been preserved. After being taken over, both parts were put together into one fonds. As a result of the frequent moving of the State Archives in Nitra, the originally arranged fonds got disintegrated and the bulk of it is still in that condition. For the confidential and presidential documents from 1919-1922, a thematic catalogue was made in 1982, but it only deals with documents relating to the labour and Communist movements. In 1995-1999, the documents from 1919-1922 were arranged, and a finding aid to them was created in 2000. At present, the fonds is classified as arranged, partially inventoried, and catalogued.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The district offices as public administration bodies were established on the basis of the decree of the Minister of Interior No. 434 of 25 October 1849. The District Office in Hlohovec was formed in 1850 and together with others it ranked among the lowest administrative-administrative units in the country. In 1854-1861, it also had the jurisdiction of the lowest judicial instance. In 1861-1871, it temporarily ceased to exist and its territory was divided among the neighbouring districts. Minor changes in the territorial jurisdiction of the Office were made in both periods of its existence (1850-1861, 1872-1922). In 1850-1861, it was part of Horní Nitra County, and in 1872-1922 part of Nitra County. The District Office in Hlohovec ceased to exist on 31 December 1922 and its authority was taken over by the District Office in Hlohovec.
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic propaganda
- Communism
- Crime
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Physicians and nurses
- Internment
- Jewish political activity
- Law enforcement
- Law enforcement--Gendarmerie
- Legal matters
- Migration
- Orphans
- Orthodox Judaism
- Passports and visas
- Trade and commerce
- Wills
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds contains official books from 1888-1918, registry finding aids from 1854-1919, and files from 1854-1922. The fonds is divided into two departments. The first one consists of documents from 1850-1861 which are further divided into public documents (presidential and administrative) and judicial documents, divided into civil and criminal. This department has not been yet organised. The documents from 1872-1922 are divided into presidential and administrative which are divided into three groups (general, offences and military). The files are arranged in chronological-numerical order, and divided into confidential, presidential, and administrative.
- Access, restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Finding aids:
- Féderová, T.: Slúžnovský úrad v Hlohovci. Dôverné, prezidiálne a administratívne písomnosti 1919 – 1922. Inventár, 2000, 110 s., ev. č. 3193; Keszeliová, A.: Slúžnovský úrad v Hlohovci. Dôverné a prezidiálne písomnosti 1919 – 1922. Katalóg prameňov k dejinám robotníckeho hnutia a KSČ, 1983, 63 s., ev. č. 2205.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP/HDC Survey 2016-18