Metadata: Voivodship Office in Krakow
Collection
- Country:
- Poland
- Holding institution:
- National Archives in Krakow
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiwum Narodowe w Krakowie
- Postal address:
- ul. Sienna 16, 30-960 Kraków
- Phone number:
- (+48 12) 4224094
- Web address:
- http://ank.gov.pl/
- Email:
- sekretariat@ank.gov.pl
- Reference number:
- 29/206/0
- Title:
- Voivodship Office in Krakow
- Title (official language):
- Urząd Wojewódzki w Krakowie
- Creator/accumulator:
- Voivod of Krakow; Voivod main office in Krakow; branches of the Voivod main office in Krakow
- Date(s):
- 1877/1953
- Date note:
- 1877; 1920-1939; 1953
- Language:
- Polish
- Extent:
- 68.03 linear metres (1,080 units)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The Krakow Voivode, with the help of an auxiliary apparatus that was the Voivodship Office, ensured public safety and order in the province, supervised police activity, as well as associations, press publishing houses, organisation of mass events (including demonstrations), issued passports, oversaw the movement of people, procedures for granting citizenship, name changes; construction; cases related to refugees, issued concessions, oversaw social and health care, and also conducted activities aimed at combating usury.
In each of these areas, the contribution of the Jewish population was very visible; it constituted about 5% of the population of Krakow province in the interwar period, and as much as 25% in Krakow alone. That is why the majority of Jewish-related records concerns Jewish activities in large towns of Krakow province, i.e. Kraków, Tarnów, and Chrzanów. The most interesting relevant documents are from 1920-1939 and include concessions issued to Jews for conducting business activities (including the sale of alcohol), minutes of meetings of the credit committee granting loans to Jewish entrepreneurs, reports on the state of employment in Jewish workplaces, and lists of Jewish workers prepared for the army.
Particularly useful for researching Jewish cultural, charitable, Zionist, sports and economic activities are the records of Jewish associations and societies, including "Jewish Culture" in Krakow, the Association of Religious Jews [Stowarzyszenie Zachowawcze Religijnych Żydów] - Machsike hadas in Tarnów, the "Ritual Kitchen for Jews residing in Public Hospitals in Krakow" Association, "Tikvah" Jewish Library and Reading Room in Trzebinia, Jewish Sports Association in Krakow, Jewish-Polish Political Club in Krakow, the Israeli Association "Bejt Hamidrash Hagadol" in Chrzanów, the "Hatzair" Sports Association in Tarnów, the Association of Merchants and Handicraftsmen in Zakopane.
Ref. 498: Materials regarding Jewish companies and societies, e.g. Plutzar and Bruell - Textile finishing plant - limited partnership Mikuszowice; Tugendhat Cloth Factory in Biała; Muench - Worsted wool spinning mill, Sternickel and Gulcher in Biała - rental of factory premises and lease of steam power; Goldfluss and Wistreich (Jasło) - sawmill, carpentry shop and steam mill; "Bacchus" Moses (Rzeszów) - wine and mead production factory; Lax perfumeries; Turbine-cylindrical mill - Abrahamer, Krakow; Wander Krakow - chemical and pharmaceutical branch; Wasserberger Krakow Husking plant and Mills; Waltz Mill and brickyard - Hochstein, Kempler and Stillmann (Bochnia); "Hope" Chocolate and sugar factory Kurtz in Krakow; Holzer Trade and Coal Association; "Strength" Herzberg leather and belt factory (Zabłocie-Żywiec); Finest Vodkas, Liqueurs and Rum Factory and Representation of the Okocimski Neumann Brewery (Myślenice); Spiegel Factory of cloth and fashionable goods (Bielsko); Lutz Polish Paint and Varnish Factory; Prokocim Glassworks (Warsaw-Krakow); Factory for chamotte and faience in Skawina; Elsner Lime Works (Zabierzów). Trade concessions 1921, 1922 Reindl – antique shop [used bookstore] (Krakow); Gassner and Friedmann trading in butter, bread and dairy products (Nowy Sącz); fairs and market fees (1921, 1924, 1925) Meller; Segal, Schlesinger; Eisen, Ihresch, Korzennik; Ehrlich, Gold.
Ref. 499: Reports on employment statistics: Continental Society for Iron Trade Kern Fittings and Metal Products Factory Łagiewniki; Schwarz Steam Brickyard and Lime Kiln (Zabłocie); Eichhorn (Tarnów) parts for agricultural machinery; Hoffmann (Sporysz) Sawmill and Lumber yard; Wimmer lime factory and quarries (Rząska); Abeles and Poser (Krakow) button making; "Tarnowianka" Industrial Plants Safier and Eckstein; Fallek (Kraków) manufacture of boxes, trays; Gruenberg (Krakow) wood articles; Szochet and Sons (Jasło) labels, bags; Rosenbach (Kamionka Wielka) steam sawmill; Metal products factory, Pellhammer brothers; Morgenbesser, Fellner (Biała) cloth factory; Mydlnicka Lime and Quarry Factory - Kamsler; Gruenberg steam carpentry workshop and floor panel factory; Gatman - Steam brick factory (Krakow); Scherer Laboratory - cosmetics, toothpaste (Krakow).
Ref. 501: Minutes of meetings of the Credit Committee of the Krakow District office of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Information on Jewish borrowers: Kempler tailor (Krakow); Jakobowicz, tailor (Tarnów); Katzner freight forwarder (Krakow); Gruenberger - owner of a concrete plant (Zakliczyn); Gruebel cab driver (Gorlice); Natan – varnisher (Podgórze); Weissblatt tailor (Krakow); Weinreb painter (Podgórze); Keppler varnisher (Krakow); Baruch printing house owner (Radomyśl); Wild butcher (Gorlice); Schnien (female) Dressmaker (Krakow); Leiner locksmith (Tarnów); Haubenstock locksmith (Krakow); Bester shoemaker (Krakow); Wohlfeiler hairdresser (Krakow); Danzig furrier (Krakow); Sturm concrete manufacturer (Biecz); Liebgold tailor (Krakow); Zelnik merchant (Podgórze).
- Archival history:
- The archives of the Voivoce Office in Krakow were taken over after the Second World War by the State Archives in Krakow. Reports, correspondence with the Council of Ministers and individual ministries can be found in the Archives of New Records (AAN) in Warsaw.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The voivode was appointed by the president at the recommendation of the interior minister approved by the Council of Ministers. Personally, he was subordinate to the interior minister. In terms of service, he was subordinate to the relevant ministerial minister. The voivode had two roles. He was a government representative in the province and a superior in the general administration. Representing the government in the province, he coordinated the activities of the government administration, had supervisory powers over the independent administration, supervised the personnel and substantive policy of the voivodship administration.
As the head of general administration, he carried out tasks related to internal affairs, i.e., ensuring public order, authority over the police, supervision of the press and associations, local government bodies. The voivode had the power to issue executive and order regulations ensuring security and public order. He had a deputy voivode. The provincial office was the auxiliary apparatus of the voivode divided into faculties and branches. Collective advisory bodies, i.e., the Provincial Council and the Provincial Department, were under his purview.
Krakow Province in the Second Polish Republic was established in December 1920. Pursuant to the ordinance of the President of the Republic of Poland of 19 January 1928 "On the organisation and scope of operation of administrative authorities", the country was divided into 16 provinces.
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Food distribution
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Financial matters
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Hospitals
- Libraries
- Manufacturing
- Orthodox Judaism
- Professions
- Professions--Crafts
- Sports
- Sports--Sports clubs
- Trade and commerce
- Trade and commerce--Alcohol trade
- Trade and commerce--Clothing and textile trade
- System of arrangement:
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General Department (1914) 1919-1939 (reference number UWKr 1-31, 262-263)
Social and Political Department 1921-1939 (reference number UWKr 32-38, 40-44a, 47, 51-53, 55a, 56-75, 76a, 77-90, 260-261, 265-360, 362-439)
Local Government Department 1921-1939 (reference number UWKr 91-98, 259)
Military Department (1914) 1921-1939 (reference number UWKr 99-112, 117-130)
Faculty of Agriculture and Agricultural Reforms (1892) 1921-1939 (reference number UWKr 131-247, 361)
Department of Industry and Trade (1919) 1921-1939 (reference number UWKr 248-252)
Department of Labour and Social Welfare 1921-1939 (reference number UWKr 253)
Health Department 1921-1939 (reference number UWKr 254-258)
Daily activity ledgers and indexes 1919-1939 (reference number UWKr Books 1-5, 48-104)
Budget Ledgers 1921-1938 (reference number UWKr Books 6-47)
- Finding aids:
- Printed and online finding aids are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Przemysław Zarubin, Kraków, 2019
