Administration of Haţeg district

Collection

Holding institution:: National Archives of Romania, Hunedoara county directorate

Holding institution (official language):: Serviciul judeţean Hunedoara al Arhivelor Naţionale Române

Scope and content:: The fonds comprises the files of the administration of Haţeg district in Hunedoara county from 1856 to 1949. It includes registers of entrance and issue of official correspondence, records of administrative conferences of local administration from the interwar period, records concerning the organisation and functions of the local services and institutions, political, religious, economic, agricultural, sanitary, educational problems of the district, the implementation of the agrarian reforms of 1921 and 1945 and records of inspections of the district administration in the localities under its jurisdiction. The following files include Jewish references: No. 1/1919 - commercial licences issued for Jewish merchants; No. 3/1941 - reports of the district administration concerning the expropriation of Jewish properties; No. 5/1944 - reports and statistics concerning the refugees from Northern Transylvania and Bukovina.

Archival history:: The fonds was in the custody of the Popular Council of Haţeg, being transferred to the Hunedoara county directorate of the Romanian National Archives after 1989. It was inventoried and made available to researchers.

Administrative/biographical history:: Between 1850/1862 the district of Haţeg was an autonomous administrative unit. It then entered under the authority of Hunedoara county. In 1876 the Austro-Hungarian Empire issued a law on administrative organisation with divided Hunedoara country into ten districts, including that of Haţeg which had as its capital the town with the same name. After the First World War the Romanian administration issued the law of 1925 which maintained Hunedoara county, now with 13 districts which also included Haţeg with 44 villages in 14 administrative units. During the Second World War, the district authorities were in charge of implementing the legislation and orders of the Antonescu regime, which had a significant antisemitic character. After 1945 the interwar system was maintained until the Communist regime was installed in 1949 when the so-called Popular Councils were organised in each district. This system was maintained until the fall of Communism in 1989.

System of arrangement:: The fonds is organised in thematic sections, within which the records are arranged in chronological order.

Finding aids:: Inventory no. 985, held by the Hunedoara county directorate of the Romanian National Archives.

Yerusha Network member:: Romanian Institute for the Research of National Minorities

Author of the description:: Tóth Levente, archivist - Protestant Theological Institute - 2019; Ladislau Gyémánt, emeritus professor - 2019