Metadata: Factory for metallic components of furniture, Arad
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:
- 126
- Title:
- Factory for metallic components of furniture, Arad
- Title (official language):
- Întreprinderea de articole metalice pentru mobilă şi binale Arad
- Creator/accumulator:
- Factory for metallic components of furniture, Arad
- Date(s):
- 1923/1975
- Language:
- German
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 366 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the files of the administration of the Factory for metallic components of furniture of Arad from 1923 to 1975. They include records concerning the organisation of the company, its personnel, accounts, budgets, relationships with other economic factors, including Jewish suppliers of raw material and Jewish recipients of products from the factory. References to Jewish issues appear especially in the following files: No. 2/1924 including the records of meetings of the general assembly of the shareholders (many of whom were Jewish) and No. 8/1936, which deals with the implementation of the law concerning the proportion of the personnel of Romanian ethnic origin (which limited the hiring of employees of non-Romanian origin, including Jews). The restrictions were imposed more strictly during the years of the Second World War, when the antisemitic legislation of the so-called Romanisation tended to exclude employees of Jewish origin from leading positions of the administration.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was preserved by the firm Feroneria, which was privatised after 1989. After 2000 it was transferred to the Arad county directorate of the Romanian National Archives, inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Factory for metallic components of furniture of Arad was founded in 1923 by the Jewish entrepreneurs Zoltan Ori and Leopold Grundmann. In 1924 it became an anonymous society and in the following years extended its production to brass moulding and nickel-plated articles. Its personnel increased from 60 employees in 1926 to 153 in 1938. After the Second World War, it was taken over by the Administration of the Soviet Goods installed in accordance with the terms of the truce signed by the United Nations with Romania in September 1944. In 1952 the company was taken over by the Romanian state under the jurisdiction of the Department of Construction of the Ministry of Metallurgy. The factory was extended due to the increased demand for metallic components in furniture production. In 1968, it was taken over by the Ministry of Wood Industry, while after 1989 with the fall of the Communist regime it was privatised under the name Feroneria, 41% of the shares being distributed to the employees and the rest of the shares sold to private investors.
- Access points: locations:
- Arad
- Access points: persons/families:
- Grundmann, Leopold
- Ori, Zoltan
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised in thematic sections, within which the files are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories no.180; 777; 822, 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