Metadata: Main Board of the Carpathian Oil Company, Lemberg
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Lviv Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний Архів Львівської області
- Postal address:
- ul. Pidvalna 13, 79008, L’viv
- Phone number:
- +38 (032) 235-47-22
- Email:
- archive_lviv@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. R-85
- Title:
- Main Board of the Carpathian Oil Company, Lemberg
- Title (official language):
- Головне правління акціонерного товариства «Карпатська нафта» у Львові
- Creator/accumulator:
- Carpathian Oil Company
- Date(s):
- 1942/1944
- Language:
- German
- Polish
- Extent:
- 88 archival storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Both series in this fonds contain materials pertaining to Jewish history and the history of the Holocaust, in particular: instructions of the labour exchange in Drohobycz to the administration of the Polmin refinery on procedures and conditions for hiring Jews to work in the oil industry (1941); an application by the management of the Carpathian Oil Company (Karpathen-Öl AG) in Borysław to the Borysław city commissar requesting permits for Jewish employees of the company that would allow them to leave the ghetto; lists of passes issued to particular employers to be given to Jews employed in oil production and refining; salary records and summaries of payments to Jewish workers (1942-43); and a circular of the main board of the Carpathian Oil Company stipulating that company accounts must include data on “Jewish workers’ kitchens” (1943).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was catalogued in 1948. In 1975 it was supplemented with documents of the territorial branch “Karpaten Öl Aktiеngesellschaft. Gruppenverwaltung in Drohobytsch” received from the Sambor/Sambir Regional Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Carpathian Oil Company (Karpathen-Öl AG), based in Lemberg/L’vov/L’viv, was founded on 28 August 1942 with a share capital of 15 million Reichsmark. It was organised on the basis of the Beskiden-Erdöl-Gewinnungsgesellschaft oil company and the Beskiden-Erdöl-Verarbeitungsgesellschaft mbH oil refining company, which had been established on 20 October 1939. The company’s shareholders were DEA (10%), Deutsche Gasolin AG (5%), Gewerkschaft Elwerath (10%), Kohle-Öl-Union von Busse KG (5%), Continentale Oel AG (50%), Preußische Bergwerks- und Hütten-AG (10%), and Wintershall AG (10%). The chairman of the Carpathian Oil Co. board was DEA CEO K Grosse. Beginning in September 1942, SS agencies began to target Jewish forced labourers in the oil industry for “removal” and destruction. German employees of Carpathian Oil who actively opposed the SS and sought to rescue Jews included Berthold Beitz, the company’s commercial director in Borysław. In late 1943, the company employed nearly 33,000 people, of whom over 50% were Poles, over 40% were Ukrainians, about 8% were Jews and less than 2% were Germans. In August 1944, with the advance of Soviet forces, the Carpathian Oil Co. organised its evacuation from Galicia. About 1,664 railway wagons with equipment and working materials, and 272 wagons with petroleum products, were delivered to the city of Oderberg, the village of Herzog-Julius-Hütte (now part of the city of Langelsheim), and the town of Harssen (now part of Celle). Company headquarters were established in Celle.
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Forced labour (of Jews)
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Ghettos
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds comprises two series which are arranged chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
