Metadata: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vienna
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:
- 891
- Title:
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vienna
- Title (official language):
- Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí Vídeň
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ministry of the Imperial House and Foreign Affairs
- Date(s):
- 1866/1918
- Date note:
- (1537) 1866/1918
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- French
- Extent:
- 8.63 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The fonds of the Foreign Ministry contains the files of the former Ministry in Vienna from 1866-1918. The files of the Information Department contain reports of subordinate offices of the Ministry concerning Pan-Slavism abroad and the life of Czech emigrants. In reg. no. 7, there are files with reports on the supply and internal political situation in Bohemia; especially valuable are the reports from the war period (1914-1918). The most valuable part of the fonds is the documents of the so-called Slavic Affairs (reg. no. I/8) from 1889-1918. It is divided into two parts, the first one containing files from 1915-1918 about the affairs of Czech emigrants and the monitoring of Pan-Slavism abroad. The second one contains files from the years 1889-1918 concerning the so-called Czech question and the settlement in Austria, or the Slavic movement within the monarchy. Files with reg. no. I/9 deal with the activities of Czech political figures from 1909 to 1918. Also of interest are documents with reg. no. XLV (Group Interna) - monitoring of members of other Slavic nationalities - and XLVIII (Press Department) - monitoring of the foreign and Czech press, including censorship/confiscation of printed matter. Also of importance for Czech history are documents reg. no. LX-LXXI, which concern the monitoring by the state of the activities of various churches and religious associations/societies in Bohemia. The archival materials of the fonds are a source for the history of the Czech national movement and politics during the period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, both inside the monarchy and especially abroad.
Specific archival material on Jewish history can be found in the Inventory 1986/91, vol. I and II: Inv. no. 196; reg. no. I/2 118; 1868; Box 13: Report on the response to the promulgation of the Religious Law; Inv. no. 220; reg. no. I/2 751; 1868; Box 14: Extract from the report of the Moravian Governorate on the meeting of church dignitaries in Kroměříž.; Inv. no. 1149; reg. no. 695; 1918; Box 26: Record of the forwarding of the consular report on Prof. Masaryk's attitude to the Zionist movement to the Hungarian Prime Minister. I/8 Su; 1918, Box 26: Consular report on Prof. Masaryk's attitude to the international Zionist movement; Inv. no. 1192; reg. no. 9; 1917; Box 27: Jewish associations in Austria and their anti-Austrian activities. Reports of the Police Directorate in Prague on the situation of Jewish associations in Bohemia.
- Archival history:
- In 1921-1924, part of the fonds was handed over to the Czechoslovak Republic from Vienna. The material was stored in the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1966/1967, the fonds was transferred to the then State Central Archive, now the National Archives. In 1968, sorting work began. A group of the so-called 'border documents' from 1675-1916 remained in the fonds, consisting of various documents and international treaties and agreements relating to authorities other than the Ministry. In 1969, the first part of the organising work was carried out and in 1970 an inventory of the fonds was published, the files being divided according to the reg. nos. I-LXXI and the copies of the files and the photo documentation being sorted.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The scope of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Imperial House was defined by a decision of 1852. The Ministry was to supervise the rights and duties of the members of the royal family and also to represent the interests of the monarchy and its citizens abroad; it ran embassies and, from 1859, the consular agenda taken over from the Ministry of Trade. After the establishment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it was one of the three ministries common to the whole monarchy. The Ministry's responsibilities were decision-making in international relations, concluding treaties and agreements, and controlling embassies. The Ministry was headed by a minister and his cabinet. Three departments were subordinate to him (presidential, political and a third which managed commercial affairs and the interests of the state abroad). The departments were subdivided into divisions.
- Subject terms:
- Law enforcement
- Law enforcement--Police
- Legal matters
- Zionism
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is divided into deeds (176 documents) and file material (files, copies of files, photocopies of files), a total of 1,631 inv. nos. stored in 67 boxes.
- Finding aids:
-
Špiritová A., Biman S., Sakařová A., Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí Vídeň Vol. I. (MZV/R), (1537) 1866–1918. Inventory 1986/1991, 260p., Inv. No. 1248.
Špiritová A., Biman S., Sakařová A., Ministerstvo zahraničních věcí Vídeň Vol. II. (MZV/R), (1537) 1866–1918. Inventory 1986/1991, 529 p., Inv. No. 1249.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://vademecum.nacr.cz/vademecum/index4Clear.jsp
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP survey
