Metadata: Provincial Office of Prague - citizenship and registry matters
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:
- 753/3
- Title:
- Provincial Office of Prague - citizenship and registry matters
- Title (official language):
- Zemský úřad Praha - státní občanství a matriční záležitosti
- Creator/accumulator:
- Czech Governor's Office; Provincial Political Administration of the National Committee; Provincial Political Administration; Provincial Office Prague; Provincial National Committee Prague
- Date(s):
- 1911/1949
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 317.7 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The originator of the fonds is the highest instance of political administration in Bohemia, whose form and name changed between 1911 and 1949: Czech Governor's Office, Provincial Political Administration, Provincial Office in Prague, Provincial National Committee in Prague.
The partial part of fonds 753/3 contains two separate agendas – citizenship and registry. The citizenship agenda also includes domicile matters, which was the personal legal relationship of an individual to a certain municipality, the content of which was the right to an undisturbed stay in the municipality and to the provision in the case of poverty. The institution of domicile was abolished after in 1945. The provincial office granted Czechoslovak citizenship, dealt with more complex cases of obtaining domicile, handled the extracts from the registers of Czechoslovak nationals abroad and foreigners in the Czechoslovak Republic, arranged additional entries in the register, marital separation issues, declaration of death, and name changes. The documents arising from this activity form the content of the fonds.
Information on Jews can be found specifically in the agenda of establishing Jewish register administrators, otherwise, the files of Jewish persons are scattered among other agendas. The fonds contains register finding aids for both agendas and files for individual applications. Registers of applicants for identity cards and name changes in the years of 1939-1945 can be found in the fonds of the Provincial Office of Prague - Presidium. The civic agenda also includes the files of re-emigrants after 1945.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was taken over by the State Central Archives after the abolition of the Provincial National Committee in Prague in 1949-1950. The fonds was temporarily stored in Terezín, where a partial internal appraisal of the register files was carried out. An extensive internal appraisal was carried out during the organisation of the fonds in 1962-1963. At that time, a partial inventory of the fonds was made. Citizenship was gradually dealt with by the departments 5 B (in 1911-1928), 1 A (1929-1934), 1 (1935-1941), I 5 (1943), I 3 (1943-1949). The register agenda was handled by the departments 1 B (1911-1930), 9 B (1931-1934), 9 (1935-1941), I 5 (1942-1943), I 3a (1943-1946), 4 (1947-1949).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Czech Governor's Office was established on the basis of the so-called March Constitution on 1 March 1850 as the highest authority of state administration in the Czech Kingdom and was the second instance of political administration in Bohemia before 1918. After 1918, it was renamed the Provincial Political Administration of the National Committee and in the following year, 1919, the Provincial Political Administration in Prague. Based on the so-called organisational law, it was transformed in 1928 into the Provincial Office in Prague, which combined the powers of the Provincial Political Administration and the Provincial Committee. In 1945, the Provincial Office was replaced by the Provincial National Committee in Prague.
- Access points: locations:
- Prague
- Subject terms:
- Citizenship
- Migration
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided as follows: A. Citizenship (I Registry finding aids, II Files). B. Register matters (I Register finding aids, II Files).
- Access, restrictions:
- The fonds is partly accessible.
- Finding aids:
- Janíková V. a kol.: Zemský úřad Praha. Státní občanství a matriční věci 1911-1949. Partial inventory, 1963, 74 p., Inv. No. 332.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://vademecum.nacr.cz/vademecum/
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP survey