Metadata: Furniture factory Pîncota
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Romania, Arad county directorate
- Holding institution (official language):
- Arhivele Nationale Române. Direcţia judeţeană Arad
- Postal address:
- Strada Piotr Ilici Ceaikovski 2-6, 310052 Arad
- Phone number:
- 0040-257-233818
- Reference number:
- 150
- Title:
- Furniture factory Pîncota
- Title (official language):
- Fabrica de mobilă Pîncota
- Creator/accumulator:
- Furniture factory Pîncota
- Date(s):
- 1928/1968
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 195 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the files of the furniture factory of Pîncota (Arad county) from 1928 to 1968. It contains the regulations of the factory, correspondence with partner firms and official authorities, annual reports and accounts and data concerning the production, personnel and financial situation of the company. There is also information concerning the historical evolution of the factory in different social-political contexts (the interwar period, war time, the difficulties of the years that followed the Second World War, the process of nationalisation in 1948 and the reorganisation in the Communist period). Particularly relevant to Jewish interest are the statistics concerning the factory’s personnel (Files No. 2/1929; 16/1936; 22/1940; 30/1943) and the correspondence with Jewish economic partner firms.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was preserved by the furniture factory of Pîncota. After 1968 it was transferred to the Arad county directorate of the Romanian National Archives, inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The furniture factory was founded in Pîncota, not far from the city of Arad, in 1912 by Mihai Mahler. The factory buildings were finished and production began in July of the same year. Initially there were 100 workers. The factory mostly produced chairs. After the First World War it activity was diversified and connections with other similar enterprises intensified, the factory becoming one of the most important enterprises of the county. After the Second World War, the factory continued its activity until 1948 when it was expropriated and taken over by the state in accordance with law 119 issued on 11 June 1948 for the nationalisation of industrial enterprises.
- Access points: locations:
- Pîncota
- Subject terms:
- Manufacturing
- Trade and commerce
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised in thematic sections, within which the files are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories no.223 and 552, held by the Arad county directorate 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 - 2018; Ladislau Gyémánt, emeritus professor - 2018
