Metadata: Administratie der Domeinen. Sequester Department (First World War). Series 7400
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Belgium
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archives Générales du Royaume
- Postal address:
- Ruisbroekstraat 2-6 / Rue de Ruysbroeck 2-6, 1000 Brussel
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 513 76 80
- Web address:
- http://www.arch.be/
- Email:
- archives.generales@arch.be
- Reference number:
- NAB-Brussels-510-2153
- Title:
- Administratie der Domeinen. Sequester Department (First World War). Series 7400
- Title (official language):
- Administratie der Domeinen. Dienst van het Sekwester (Eerste Wereldoorlog). Reeks 7400
- Creator/accumulator:
- FOD Financiën; SPF Finances
- Date(s):
- 1919/1996
- Extent:
- 60.06 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds consists of two main parts. We firstly note the general material, related to i.a. personnel, the general operation of the service, the legal consequences of the various peace treaties, guidelines for the sequester on property, shares, financial assets etc. of German citizens and nationals of the other former enemy powers, complaints regarding the sequestration and various litigations by sequestered individuals and businesses and so on. In this series we note for example two files related to the assets of Syrian Jews from the Levant (years 1921-1924) – see files no. 77 and 131. The second part, the impressive series of individual files, consists of nearly 12,000 files of individuals, families and businesses whose assets were sequestered. We note many files related to German, Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman and other Jews – see for example the files related to the Balser family (nos. 1651-1670), Tietz (nos. 1795-1830), Hirsch & Cie (no. 2232), Fritz Norden (no. 3903).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Belgian government created the Ministry of Finance in 1831. As one of the five ministries at the time it was in charge of, notably, the new kingdom’s bookkeeping (budget, accounts, patrimonial accounting) and the execution of fiscal legislation. The Secretary-General was assisted by the General Secretariat, responsible for logistics, staff policy, accounting, the documentation and study service, the translation service, the automation service, the social service, etc. The ministry was also supported by a number of external services, advisory and executive commissions, and a number of public institutions. The Ministry of Finance was subdivided into ‘fiscal’ (among others Direct Taxes, Customs and Excise, Land Registration and Estates, Cadastre) and ‘non-fiscal’ (Treasury and Public Debt, Mint) departments. In the 1970s and 1990s the ministry underwent extensive reforms; new services were created and the tasks of some departments were redefined. The fiscal departments in particular were thoroughly reshaped. The formal creation of the FPS Finance dates back to 2002. Today, the FPS Finance has six general administrations (incl. Patrimonial Documentation, Treasury, Special Tax Inspection), five staff departments (incl. ICT, staff), eight departments of the Chairman (incl. the Central Legal Department) and three autonomous services (incl. Tax conciliation). (Several pages on http://financien.belgium.be/nl/; M. Preneel & J. Verhelst, “De FOD Financiën”, in P. van den Eeckhout & G. Vanthemsche (ed.), Bronnen voor de studie van het hedendaagse België 19e – 21e eeuw. Tweede herziene en uitgebreide uitgave. Brussel, Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis / Commission Royale d’Histoire, 2009, pp. 407-421.)
- Access points: persons/families:
- Balser family
- Norden, Fritz
- Tietz family
- Subject terms:
- Financial matters
- Trade and commerce
- Vital records
- World War I
- Access, restrictions:
- Consultation of documents less than 30 years old requires the permission of the FPS Finance.
- Finding aids:
- L. Vandeweyer, Archief van de Dienst van het Sekwester van de administratie der Domeinen – Archives du Service du Séquestre de l’Administration des Domaines, 1919-1996, 2 vol., I 484, Brussel, ARA-AGR, 2010.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
