Metadata: Presidium of the Ministerial Council, 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:
- 870
- Title:
- Presidium of the Ministerial Council, Vienna
- Title (official language):
- Prezídium ministerské rady Vídeň
- Creator/accumulator:
- Presidium of the Ministerial Council, Vienna
- Date(s):
- 1852/1918
- Language:
- Czech
- German
- Extent:
- 12 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
-
The documents of the fonds concern the development of the Czech lands at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. They deal especially with the political and national conditions of the time. Of particular importance is the surviving correspondence, which includes various official letters between the Prime Minister and individual ministers of the Cisleithainian government, between ministers and governors of the kingdom and the countries represented at the Imperial Council, individual deputies, church dignitaries and other figures of political, economic and cultural life.
In the case of the governorate, it was the personal reports of the governors (Bohemian, Moravian) on political events and the situation in their countries, while the ministers dealt with complaints and requests of a political and economic nature and the filling of posts in state offices. The correspondence between politicians and deputies mainly includes requests from political parties, various statements on government policy, and opinions and proposals for dealing with political situations. The general register contains reports and reports of the governorates and ministries. There are also files of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers itself, such as files on elections, on meetings of the provincial assemblies, on the cooperation of the leaders of the Slavic nations during World War I, etc. We can also find documents on activities of political parties, their public meetings, meetings of associations, including a file with applications from citizens from Czech lands to work in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The registry of the press department consists of the quarterly reports of the governorate on the circulation of political journals, as well as files on various publishing houses and personnel and financial matters of official provincial newspapers and branches, including reports on confiscation and discontinuation of newspapers, as well as confiscations. On the other hand, we can also find complaints of journalists against the censorship measures of the state authorities.
The transcripts of the minutes of the meetings of the Ministerial Council are only extant from 1895-1897. The transcripts come only from those meetings that directly concerned the Czech lands.
Specific Jewish-related material can be found in Inventory 2007: Inv. no. 430; no. 1111/1907; 18 December 1907; Box 7: Austrian Prime Minister to Minister of Justice in the matter of Simon Pollak's complaint about the attitude and actions of court secretary Josef Kraut in the trial of Pollak vs. Dr. Nathan Ehrenfeld. Inv. No. 1243; No. 847/1915; 28 July 1915; Box 18: Jewish Community in Olomouc to the Jewish Union in Vienna. Notice of an advertisement in the Mährische Tagblatt, in which only Christian merchants are encouraged to join the merchants' association. Inv. no. 1657; no. 658/1882; Box 22; Petition of the association against Jewish teachers in Bohemia and for the regulation of their legal status. Inv. no. 4318; ref. 848/1904; 7 May 1904; Box 37: Interpellation of MP W. F. Hauck and others concerning actions of a general practitioner from Všeruby and the criminal proceedings started against him. Inv. No. 4362; No. 2069/1904; 7 December 1904; Box 37: Interpellation of MP W. F. Hauck and others concerning the difficulties of the Westböhmische Rundschau. Inv. No. 8074; Ref. 2355/1917; 4 December 1917; Box 91: Record of an inspection act concerning the anti-Jewish movement abroad, the activities of the National Jewish Fund in The Hague and the temporary withholding of monetary donations sent to this fund from Austria.
- Archival history:
- The files were transferred from Vienna in 1920 and then deposited in the Archives of the Ministry of the Interior, forming the fonds of the Presidium of the Ministerial Council Vienna. The fonds was transferred to Vienna in 1939 and in 1949/50 returned to the State Central Archives in Prague (formerly the Archives of the Ministry of the Interior). In 1953, it was organised and cataloguing was started. The work was interrupted in 1958 and resumed only after 1990. In 1962, the fonds was inventoried and an inventory was created. A new inventory was made in 2007. The correspondence of the Prime Minister Eduard Taaffe was removed from the fonds and moved to his personal fonds (called ‘Eduard Taaffe’).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Presidium of the Ministerial Council was an auxiliary body of the executive power in Austria, i.e. the Prime Minister and the Ministerial Council. The Council itself was answerable only to the monarch. It was established by a decision of 17 March 1848 and functioned until 1918. Its activities were defined by an imperial cabinet letter of 20 August 1851 and confirmed after 1867. In addition to advisory matters, the powers of the Council included its resolution/approval for the submission of important measures to the executive, such as the declaration of a state of emergency, the issuance of emergency measures without the consent of the Imperial Council (instead of laws), or the temporary suspension of jury trials. Among the functions of the Presidium of the Council were the providing of clerical services for the Ministerial Council, the handling of files sent to the Prime Minister by various ministries and provincial authorities, and practical duties of the Prime Minister.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Ehrenfeld, Nathan
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Education
- Education--Teachers and professors
- Legal matters
- System of arrangement:
- The documents of the fonds are divided thematically into four groups, i.e. correspondence (1900-1918), general registry (1862/1867-1918), files of the press department (1888-1918) and copies of the minutes of meetings of the Ministerial Council for two periods (1852-1867 and 1895-1897/1917). In total, the fonds consists of 8,378 inv. nos. in 95 boxes.
- Finding aids:
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Churaň M., Presidium ministerské rady Vídeň (MRP/R), 1867–1918. Inventory 1962, 17 p., Inv. No. 387.
Hladíková K., Horký R., Krlín J., Koblasa P., Lutovská P., Prezídium ministerské rady Vídeň (MRP/R), 1852–1918. Inventory 2007, 730p., Inv. No. 1683/1–3.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://vademecum.nacr.cz/vademecum/index4Clear.jsp
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP survey
