Metadata: Archives of the group Tractionel (formerly: Compagnie Mutuelle de Tramways, then Électricité et Traction, and then Traction et Électricité)
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of Belgium 2 – Joseph Cuvelier Repository
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archives Générales du Royaume 2 – Dépôt Joseph Cuvelier
- Postal address:
- Hopstraat 26-28 / Rue du Houblon 26-28, 1000 Bruxelles
- Phone number:
- +32 (0)2 274 15 00
- Web address:
- http://www.arch.be/
- Email:
- agr_ar_2@arch.be
- Reference number:
- NAB2-Brussels-545-122
- Title:
- Archives of the group Tractionel (formerly: Compagnie Mutuelle de Tramways, then Électricité et Traction, and then Traction et Électricité)
- Title (official language):
- Archives du groupe Tractionel (anciennement : Compagnie Mutuelle de Tramways puis Électricité et Traction puis Traction et Électricité)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Tractionel
- Date(s):
- 1870/1989
- Extent:
- ca. 400 linear metres
- Scope and content:
-
This fonds is very rich in material. It consists of documents concerning the statutory bodies and management of the holding, regarding the various departments of the holding, related to the managers and executives, to subsidiary companies, documentation, documents regarding employee representation and social services, etc.
The following files are of great interest to our guide: no. 2609 (“Negative certificate concerning the ordinances against the Jews and delivered by the German military administration (1941), in the framework of the contracts and agreements involving the CMTSA and TESA and their branches”), no. 4972 (printed material and notes on i.a. anti-Jewish measures, declaration of ‘Jewish property’, attestations of ‘non-Jewish companies’, etc., 1940-1944), no. 8790 (“Sequestration of Jewish property”, 1940-1941), no. 8887 (“Statement of the administrators concerning the German ordinance regarding confiscation of Jewish property”, 1940-1941), no. 9116 (“Sequestration of Jewish property: personal declarations of the administrators”, 1940), no. 9322 (concerning anti-Jewish measures, related to the personnel of the Compagnie belge pour les tramways et l’éclairage électrique de Saratov SA, 1940), no. 9900 (“Census of Jewish property”, 1940-1941), no. 10235 (“Jewish property: statements concerning the ordinance regarding the Jews”, 1940-1941) and no. 10236 (i.a. containing correspondence with the department “Belgian interests abroad” of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, documents concerning the declaration of ‘Jewish goods’ in the General Government of Krakow, and files related to Belgotesa (Société générale d’exploitations électriques de Łódź et extensions) SA). We also point out a number of files concerning certain banks.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In 1895 Charles Charlier and Ivan Likhatschev became partners and established the Compagnie Mutuelle des Tramways (later renamed to Traction et Electricité, or Tractionel). The purpose of the company was the creation and operation of transport companies, in Belgium and abroad. The company expanded rapidly, by investing in more than fifty transport and lighting companies. To this end, Tractionel was backed by the Belgian Société Générale since 1910. Despite the setbacks suffered in Russia after the Revolution, the company recovered quickly and its capital grew exponentially. In 1986 it merged with Electrobel to form Tractebel (Compagnies Réunies Electrobel et Tractionel). (R. Brion & J.-L. Moreau, Inventaire des archives du groupe Compagnie Mutelle des Tramways alias Traction et Électricité alias Tractionel (1870-1989), Association pour la Valorisation des Archives d’Entreprises, unpublished inventory.)
- Access, restrictions:
- Consultation requires the permission of the Algemeen Rijksarchivaris.
- Finding aids:
- R. Brion & J.-L. Moreau, Inventaire des archives du groupe Compagnie Mutelle des Tramways alias Traction et Électricité alias Tractionel (1870-1989), Association pour la Valorisation des Archives d’Entreprises, unpublished inventory, including an index.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
