Metadata: The Hollander Companies: Various documents, financial statements
Collection
- Country:
- Sweden
- Holding institution:
- Swedish National Archives in Marieberg
- Holding institution (official language):
- Riksarkivet Marieberg
- Postal address:
- Box 12541, 102 29 Stockholm
- Phone number:
- 010-476 70 00
- Web address:
- https://riksarkivet.se/startpage
- Email:
- riksarkivet@riksarkivet.se
- Reference number:
- SE/RA/740105/F & G
- Title:
- The Hollander Companies: Various documents, financial statements
- Title (official language):
- Ämnesordnade handlingar, Räkenskaper
- Creator/accumulator:
- Hollander Companies
- Date(s):
- 1866/1996
- Language:
- Swedish
- German
- English
- Hebrew
- French
- Spanish; Castilian
- Extent:
- 83 volumes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection consists of 83 volumes, divided into 11 sections. The collection comprises documents related to the Hollander Companies, specifically concerning juridical conflicts and processes, international management teams, the foundation, accounts, annual economic reports and taxes.
The first section (SE/RA/740105/F1: Contracts and other juridical documents) contains economic material related to Fritz Hollander’s family and the Hollander Companies, such as contracts, agreements, stock letters, credit letters, invoices, reports, bills of debt and deeds of gifts from 1872 to 1993, divided into nine volumes.
The second section (SE/RA/740105/F2a: Dispute concerning Transacta and Fincom) contains correspondence, internal memorandum, reports and documents from 1971 to 1995 related to a juridical dispute with the companies Transacta and Fincom, with the Czech government being involved as well. The section is divided into 12 volumes.
The third section (SE/RA/740105/F2b: Other disputes and legal processes) contains material related to other legal disputes. The two volumes contain documents from 1947 to 1993 that concern legal disputes with K. E. Ydstie and Feinstein’s Audit Bureau, as well as a taxation dispute in the Netherlands, and disputes on Fritz Hollander’s properties in Saltsjöbaden, Stockholm.
The fourth section (SE/RA/740105/F3: The main office and the Hollander companies in Sweden) contains material about organisational questions, issues, buildings, business partners, reports and projects within the Hollander Companies business activities in Sweden from 1945 to 1995. The following companies are included: F. Hollander & Co AB, AB Baltiska Skinnkompaniet, Hollies AB, Hollco AB, AB Svensk Varuclearing, Vargläderfabriken Aktiebolag, and Alexander Grünfeld AB. The material is divided into 18 volumes.
The fifth section (SE/RA/740105/F4a: Israel) contains correspondence, minutes and annual reports from 1968 to 1995 with the Hollander Companies branches established in Israel. Some of the material concern the companies AB Israel-Invest and ALMA. The material is divided into four volumes.
The sixth section (SE/RA/740105/F4b: New York) contains correspondence, minutes and economic reports from 1980 to 1995, concerning the Hollander Companies’ activities in New York. The material is divided into four volumes.
The first part of the seventh section (SE/RA/740105/F4ca: Argentina) concerns business activities in Argentina, including the companies Curtansa SA and A J Hollander y Asociados SA, Scali and Duke Shoes. The material includes calculations, correspondence, reports, organisational questions and minutes from 1974 to 1994, and it is divided into 13 volumes. The second part of this section (SE/RA/740105/F4cb: Other South American countries) contains material related to business activities in Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay from 1972 to 1991. The material is divided into three volumes.
The eighth section (SE/RA/740105/F4d: Europe and the rest of the world) contains material related to business activities in the USSR, Russia, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and France from 1975 to 1996, stored in three volumes.
The ninth section (SE/RA/740105/F5: Documents related to the Hollander Foundation) contains documents related to the Hollander Foundation from 1952 to 1994, divided into two volumes.
The tenth section (SE/RA/740105/G1a: Annual reports and documents for closing accounts) contains material needed for the creation of economic reports, annual reports, the annual closure of accounts and taxes from 1937 to 1994, divided into 12 volumes.
The last section (SE/RA/740105/G2: Books of account) contains books of account from 1866 to 1935, stored in one volume.
- Archival history:
- The collection was deposited at the National Archives of Sweden in 1999.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This collection belongs to the business archive related to the so-called Hollander Companies. The Hollander Companies were run by Friedrich (Fritz) Hollander, who was born in Germany in 1915 to the merchant Julius Jeshajahu Hollander and his wife Paula (née Gutmann). Fritz Hollander died in Stockholm in 2004. He grew up working within the family business F. Hollander & Co, founded in 1862. In 1933 he emigrated to Sweden, where he became the CEO of the family business, as well as the company AB Baltiska Skinnkompaniet that traded fur and leather. The Hollander company had local branches in, for example, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Montreal and Bulawayo. Fritz Hollander married Camilla (née Ettlinger), daughter of Jacob Ettlinger, the chairman of the orthodox synagogue Adat Jisrael in Stockholm (see archive SE/RA/720483 at the Swedish State Archive). Fritz Hollander was also the lay leader of the Jewish community in Stockholm from 1962 and leader of the Swedish Zionist Bund from 1968. He was an important figure in setting up, for example, the Jewish Hillel school in Stockholm. The records in the business archive are related to business matters, but also hold private correspondence with family members.
- Subject terms:
- Legal records
- Trade and commerce
- Access, restrictions:
- Access to the collection is restricted to academic research. Permission is required and should be obtained in advance from the Hollander family. Their contact details can be requested from the National Archives by e-mail: riksarkivet@riksarkivet.se.
- Finding aids:
- The index can be found in a folder in the archive and in the archive’s online database, NAD (Nationell Arkivdatabas).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum in Stockholm
- Author of the description:
- Maja Hultman
