Metadata: County Court of Satu Mare
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 18
- Title:
- County Court of Satu Mare
- Title (official language):
- Tribunalul Judeţean Satu Mare
- Creator/accumulator:
- County Court of Satu Mare
- Date(s):
- 1710/1944
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Latin
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 6,499 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds comprises the records of the county court of Satu Mare from 1710 to 1944. They include files of the industrial, commercial and financial firms from Satu Mare county with data concerning their founding, registration, activity, bankruptcies, their capital and profits and cases of mergers. The files are arranged by localities from 1864 to 1949 and there is a considerable number of Jewish companies. More than two thirds of the 208 firms registered in Baia Mare, 611 in Carei and 1003 in Satu Mare have Jewish owners. There is also a substantial Jewish presence in the list of lawyers in Satu Mare in 1891 (file no. 40).
The following files contain specific Jewish references: no. 723 - trial of Jakab Leibovits against a widow from Comlăuşa for the restitution of a debt (1853); no. 9 - bankruptcies of the merchants Bela Oistreiker and Moritz Steiner from Satu Mare (1875); no. 27 - bankruptcies of Kalman Weiss and David Hermann (1899); inventory 179 - estate issues (1710-1843).
- Archival history:
- The fonds was originally held by the court of Satu Mare. It was transferred to the Satu Mare County division of the Romanian National Archives, where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The county court of Satu Mare was established in 1854 in accordance with the reform of the judicial system introduced by the so-called Neo-absolutist Austrian regime installed after the defeat of the 1848/1849 revolution. It functioned as a forum of first instance near the prefecture of Satu Mare district. After 1867, when the Austrian Empire was replaced by the Austro-Hungarian, the court was reorganised according to Law XXXII issued by the Hungarian Parliament as a court of the county of Satu Mare with authority in civil, commercial and criminal cases. After the First World War its activity continued in accordance with the Romanian legislation until 1940 when the Hungarian administration was reinstalled in Northern Transylvania until 1944. After the Second World War the Romanian judicial system became valid again, while in 1948 the Communist regime radically changed it.
- Access points: persons/families:
- David, Hermann
- Leibovits, Jakab
- Oistreiker, Bela
- Steiner, Moritz
- Weiss, Kalman
- System of arrangement:
- The thematic files of the fonds are organised by locality. Within this they are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories No. 6, 35, 170, 179, 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), 2018