Metadata: "Frații Princz” [Brothers Princz] factory
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Naţionale Române. Direcţia Judeţeană Satu Mare
- Postal address:
- Satu Mare, Str. 1 Decembrie 1918, 13, Satu Mare, 440010, jud. Satu Mare
- Phone number:
- 0261-711102
- Reference number:
- Fond 108
- Title:
- "Frații Princz” [Brothers Princz] factory
- Title (official language):
- Fabrica "Frații Princz" Satu Mare
- Creator/accumulator:
- "Frații Princz” factory
- Date(s):
- 1911/1948
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 148 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This fonds comprises the records of the factory "Frații Princz" [Brothers Princz] of Satu Mare from 1911 to 1948. It includes the correspondence of the factory with clients, bookkeeping registers, insurance files, bank documents, records referring to its buildings in Satu Mare and Bucharest and inventories and registers of materials and products. The factory was the property of the Jewish entrepreneurs Armin and Jozsef Princz and its main field of activity was iron moulding, production of machines for agriculture and mills, reparation of railway wagons and armament production during the First and Second World Wars. It was one of the most important industrial enterprises in Transylvania. One of its owners, Armin Princz, was the president of the Jewish community of Satu Mare and during the Second World War was exempted by the Hungarian administration from the restrictions of the antisemitic legislation.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was originally held by the “23 August” enterprise of Satu Mare. It was transferred to the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives in 197, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The factory "Frații Princz" [Brothers Princz] was founded in 1906 and was registered by the court of Satu Mare on 1 April 1907 as property of the brothers Armin and Jozsef Princz. Initially, until the end of the First World War, its activity was concentrated on iron production and production of machines and buildings for mills. During the war it fulfilled various orders for the Austro-Hungarian army. After the war it was registered as an anonymous society of shares held by the same majority shareholders and focused its activity on production of enamel pots and reparation of machines for agriculture, mills and railway wagons. It owned a warehouse in Bucharest and even moved its headquarters there in 1940 for a short period of time. During the Second World War the factory mostly produced machine parts for tanks, artillery, lorries and mortar shells. In 1948 it was nationalised by the Communist regime, continuing its activity under the name "August 23”.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Princz, Armin
- Princz, Jozsef
- Subject terms:
- Manufacturing
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised into thematic files which are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory No. 124, held by the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities
- Author of the description:
- Attila Gidó (researcher, Institute for Study of National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca), Ladislau Gyémánt (emeritus professor), 2017
