Metadata: Savings Bank Trei Scaune - Sfîntu Gheorghe branch
Collection
- Country:
- Romania
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Romania, Covasna county directorate
- Holding institution (official language):
- Serviciul judeţean Covasna al Arhivelor Naţionale Române
- Postal address:
- Strada General Grigore Bălan 12, Sfântu Gheorghe
- Phone number:
- 0040-267-310645
- Web address:
- arhivelenationale-covasna.ro
- Email:
- covasna@arhivelenationale.ro
- Reference number:
- 2
- Title:
- Savings Bank Trei Scaune - Sfîntu Gheorghe branch
- Title (official language):
- Casa de păstrare din Trei Scaune - Sfîntu Gheorghe
- Creator/accumulator:
- Savings Bank Trei Scaune - Sfîntu Gheorghe branch
- Date(s):
- 1876/1948
- Language:
- Hungarian
- Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
- Extent:
- 70 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds comprises the files and registers of the Sfîntu Gheorghe branch of the Savings Bank Trei Scaune from 1876 to 1948. It includes records of the meetings of the annual general assemblies of the shareholders, reports of the council of administration, statutes of the bank, balance sheets, inventories, correspondence with clients and list of the employees. It also contains registers of deposits, credits given by the bank and of the shares issued. Among the clients of the bank are Jewish persons and firms. File No. 60/1944 includes the inventory ordered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Hungary of the confiscated jewels, cash and deposits of the deported Jews from Trei Scaune county (100 sets on 275 pages). It is mentioned that the deposits were taken over in 1949 by representatives of the Federation of the Jewish Communities from Romania, namely Iosif Eltes and Simion Schobel.
- Archival history:
- The fonds was transferred to the Covasna county directorate of the Romanian National Archives in 1971, inventoried in 1998 and made available to researchers.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Savings Bank of Trei Scaune county was founded in 1876 with its headquarters in Sfîntu Gheorghe. The initiators were count Gyula Szentivanyi (who became the first president of the council of administration), the landowner Andras Bogdan and count Benedek Mikes. Branches were established in 1885 in Baraolt and in in 1893 in Covasna. The main purpose of the bank was to offer financial support and credits to local entrepreneurs, especially in agriculture. There were also philanthropic initiatives such as social assistance for those in need and scholarships for deserving students. The bank continued its activity in the interwar period, having among its clients members of the local Jewish communities and firms. During the Holocaust, the Hungarian government used the services of the bank to hold expropriated Jewish valuables, which were recovered by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Romania in 1949. The bank ceased to exist after the nationalisation of all banking enterprises by the Communist regime.
- Access points: locations:
- Sfîntu Gheorghe
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds is organised in thematic sections, within which the records are arranged in chronological order.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories no. 37 and 758 preserved the County direction Covasna 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
