Metadata: Ministry of Finance I, Prague
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of the Czech Republic
- Holding institution (official language):
- Národní archiv
- Postal address:
- Archivní 2257/4, 149 00 Praha 4
- Phone number:
- +420 974 847 240
- Web address:
- https://www.nacr.cz
- Email:
- posta@nacr.cz
- Reference number:
- 517
- Title:
- Ministry of Finance I, Prague
- Title (official language):
- Ministerstvo financí I, Praha
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ministry of Finance
- Date(s):
- 1918/1945
- Date note:
- (1887) 1918/1945 (1949)
- Language:
- Czech
- Extent:
- 382.1 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds of the Ministry of Finance is a key fonds for the study of economic history in the period 1918-1945. It includes material regarding the state financial administration, state accounting, as well as the whole set of financial laws and government regulations, implementing regulations and amendments, which the Ministry issued itself or on which it had its comments. It contains file material concerning international treaties, conventions and various negotiations of a financial, economic, commercial and legal nature, and there also valuable files relating to peace treaties, various settlements, reparations, delimitations, etc., as they usually contain general inventories and assessments of the movable and immovable property of the Czechoslovak Republic. The fonds also contains documents on the development of the Czechoslovak state debt, state loans and credit operations. There is also a wealth of material related to all types of taxes, the tax system, matters of tax administrations, the management of local governments, the costs of construction of roads, bridges, buildings, support for electrification of the state, contributions to all modes of transport, etc. The material also contains files concerning civil servants, modifications of their salaries, systematisation, statistics, and pension insurance. It is also possible to find interesting documents about the Czechoslovak coinage, the minting of money and the gold reserve. Interesting are also collected files from various tax reports on the property and taxes of many prominent persons of the Czechoslovak state such as T.G. Masaryk, E. Beneš, K. Čapek, V. Dyk, J.V. Myslbek, A. Jirásek, etc. There are also file on the estates and property situations of various aristocratic families and families of big entrepreneurs and manufacturers. The fonds contains materials related to Jewish emigrants, Jewish property, Jewish foundations and benefits and Jewish loans. Attention should also be paid to materials about the Jewish Relief Society in Olomouc, the National Jewish Council and the Association of Jewish Teachers in Přerov. Documents concerning Jews are also certain to be found in other parts of the fonds.
- Archival history:
- The file material of the Ministry of Finance was transferred to the State Central Archives in several tranches. Part of the material was handed over before 1938 and additional transfers took place in 1953, 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1968. Thus, most of the general registry and registry finding aids were taken over.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Ministry of Finance was established on the basis of the Act of 2 November 1918 on the Establishment of the Supreme Authorities in the Czechoslovak Republic, originally as the Office for Financial Administration. From the very beginning, the Ministry of Finance was an influential authority, as it managed all state finances, implementing the state budget policy, managing the currency, the state debt, direct and indirect taxes, fees, customs duties, monopolies, and lotteries. By the government decree of 2 March 1939, the Ministry of Finance was entrusted with the supervision of all financial institutions. The ministry was organisationally divided into the presidium and several departments. As the ministry's tasks grew, new departments and divisions emerged. In 1945, the new organisational rules of the ministry were issued.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided as follows: A) Registry finding aids: a) presidium part, b) general registry; B) Files: a) presidium - 1) presidium records, 2) presidium files, 3) various; b) general registry.
- Access, restrictions:
- The fonds is partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
-
Bubeníčková R., Helešicová V., Janíková V., Kolafová L., Kreč J., Machatková R., Malá I., Nosková A., Šturz J., Žabka J.: Ministerstvo financí 1918 - 1949, Vol. I.. Inventory, 1968, 456 p.,Inv. No. 533.
Bubeníčková R., Helešicová V., Janíková V., Kolafová L., Kreč J., Machatková R., Malá I., Nosková A., Šturz J., Žabka J.: Ministerstvo financí 1918 - 1949, Vol. II.. Inventory, 1968, 369 p., Inv. No. 534.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP survey