Metadata: Gendarmerie of Caraş county
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române, Direcţia judeţeană Caraş-Severin
- Postal address:
- Şesul Nou Str. No. 12, Caransebeş 325400, Caraş-Severin county, Romania
- Phone number:
- 0040-255-512981
- Reference number:
- Fond 183
- Title:
- Gendarmerie of Caraş county
- Title (official language):
- Legiunea de jandarmi Caraş
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gendarmerie of Caraş county
- Date(s):
- 1935/1949
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 369 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains circulars, instructions and orders from higher authorities, reports, records and notes from local sections and posts concerning the economic status of the population, the fulfilment of their obligations during the war, market speculation activities, sabotage during and after the Second World War, statistics on foreigners, religious sects, drafting and mobilisation of reservists, counterespionage and guarding of the border with Yugoslavia. There is much information about communist activity before and during the war, political events after the war and the elections of 1946. The Jewish population is monitored and its status is noted relatively frequent in the reports (file 15/1944). The same is true of the legionary (fascist) movement and its antisemitic positions and actions.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was transferred to the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County where it was inventoried.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The gendarmerie was established during the Austro-Hungarian regime by a law issued in 1881. A law concerning the activity of the institution under the Romanian system was published in 1929, and in accordance with its prescriptions the Caraş County gendarmerie was established in the same year with its headquarters in Oraviţa and subordinated to the inspectorate in Timişoara. Its duties were to maintain public order and guarantee the security of the state against threats in the rural localities of the county. During the Second World War, its duties were extended and it was subordinated to the Ministry of National Defence, its main task being to assure stability behind the front lines. It was replaced in 1949 by the communist Popular Militia.
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Communism
- Fascism
- Law enforcement
- Law enforcement--Gendarmerie
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 183 of the Romanian National Archives, Directorate of Caraş-Severin County.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Attila Gidó (Institutul pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităţilor Naţionale, Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor, Cluj-Napoca), 2016