Metadata: Agricultural Office Hunedoara
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Romania, Hunedoara county directorate
- Holding institution (official language):
- Serviciul judeţean Hunedoara al Arhivelor Naţionale Române
- Postal address:
- Strada Aurel Vlaicu 2, Deva 330005
- Phone number:
- 0040-254-213875
- Reference number:
- 62
- Title:
- Agricultural Office Hunedoara
- Title (official language):
- Ocolul Agricol Hunedoara
- Creator/accumulator:
- Agricultural Office Hunedoara
- Date(s):
- 1928/1949
- Language:
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 22 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the files of the Agricultural Office of Hunedoara from 1928 to 1949. It includes records and information about the organisation agricultural activities of Hunedoara county issued by the county council for agriculture, the Chamber for Agriculture and the Agricultural section of the county prefecture. These documents refer to the solving of property issues caused by the agrarian reform of 1921, reparation and exploitation of communal pastures and distribution of selected seeds. The responsibilities of the office also included gathering and presenting to the superior authorities statistical data and tables about the results of agricultural activity in Hunedoara district. The following files include Jewish references: No. 5/1941 - Reports concerning the expropriation of Jewish properties and their administration in the framework of the so-called “Romanisation”.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was preserved by the Prefecture of Hunedoara county, being transferred after 1989 to the Hunedoara county directorate of the Romanian National Archives where it was inventoried and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- After the First World War the county-level agricultural services in Transylvania were organised along the lines of the system from the Old Kingdom of Romania before 1918. They included agricultural services of the districts that made up each county. The county-level Agricultural Offices were introduced on 6 April 1939 by the restructuring of the Ministry of Agriculture and Estates, in which the former agricultural services were included in the so-called Chambers for Agriculture. On 25 April 1940 new legislation was issued concerning the Agricultural Chambers which instituted in each county an agricultural office including a chief of office, an agronomist engineer and an agricultural administrator. To this office were subordinated all institutions in the county connected with agriculture, such as farms, agricultural schools, agricultural centres and committees at local level. The Agricultural Office of Hunedoara was based in Hunedoara and was responsible for the district of Hunedoara. During the Second World War it was involved in the implementation of the Antonescu dictatorship’s policy concerning Jewish properties in the agricultural sector. After 1945 it was used for the agrarian reform, while in 1949 it was replaced by the Communist regime with the sections for agriculture of the Popular Councils.
- Access points: locations:
- Hunedoara
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Plunder
- Real estate
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised in thematic files, within which the records are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventory no. 116, 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:
- Attila Gidó, researcher, Institute for Study of National Minorities Cluj-Napoca - 2019; Ladislau Gyémánt, emeritus professor - 2019
