Metadata: Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Krakow. Cadastre
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:
- 29/318/2.2
- Title:
- Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Krakow. Cadastre
- Title (official language):
- Izba Przemysłowo-Handlowa w Krakowie. Kataster
- Creator/accumulator:
- Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Krakow
- Date(s):
- 1857/1950
- Date note:
- 1873-1941; 1867-1941; 1864-1949; 1864-1941; 1863-1941, 1858-1941, 1863-1941, 1873-1943;1876-1941; 1872-1942; 1863-1947; 1863-1950 ; 1874-1941 ; 1907-1939; 1857-1945
- Language:
- Polish
- German
- Extent:
- 65 units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The records of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry constitute an extensive and unique collection indispensable for research on the entrepreneurship and political activities of the Jewish elite of Krakow in the second half of the 19th century, the interwar period, as well as during World War II. It is also useful for genealogical and prosopographic research. In 1938, in the Kraków Province, out of 34,6000 entrepreneurs, 17,600 were Jews. The Chamber's records include the entrepreneurial records kept by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which consist of company surveys, a list of enterprises (the so-called industrial cadastre) as well as catalogue cards from the cadastre and company files. The collection covers Biała, Bochnia, Brzesko, Chrzanów, Dąbrowa, Gorlice, Grybów, Jasło, Kolbuszowa, Kraków, Limanowa, Łańcut, Mielec, Myślenice, Nisko, Nowy Sącz, Nowy Targ, Pilzno, Podgórze, Ropczyce, Rzeszów, Strzyżów, Tarnobrzeg, Tarnów, Wadowice, Wieliczka and Żywiec. In the years 1919-1939 the geographical scope also included Krosno, Przeworsk, Cieszyn, Silesia, and Spisz and Orawa. Due increasing industrialisation, most of the documents relevant for Jewish history are from the 1920s and 1930s. Of particular value are the cadastral cards regarding the activities of rich and influential families of Jewish industrialists from Krakow, Podgórze, and Wieliczka, i.e., Liban, Epstein, Ehrenpreis, Dattner, Hochstimm, Baruch, Mendelsburg. Cadastral files are sorted alphabetically for each of the individual counties in the province. They contain the names of the company's owners (e.g. partners of a limited liability company), company headquarters (sometimes the exact address), information on ownership transformations (death of a partner, withdrawal or joining the company), information about the start and end of operations, about liquidation proceedings, etc. Cadastral files from the 1920s and 1930s often additionally provide information on the share capital and financial shares of individual partners. Records from the years of the German occupation of 1939-1942 were produced by the City Council and city governor (Stadthauptmann) of the city of Krakow and contain information about the takeover of individual Jewish enterprises by German and Polish owners or information about the establishment of non-Jewish board imposed by the Germans [zarząd komisaryczny]. The cadastral files from 1941-1942 contain sparse permits issued by the city elderman [starosta - Stadthauptmann der Stadt Krakau] for Jews to run businesses in the Jewish residential area (Krakow ghetto). The cadastre was divided into four registers: 1) General partnerships and sole proprietorships, 2) Limited liability companies, 3) Joint-stock companies, 4) Cooperatives and associations.
IPHKr I 177: "Irwing" trade association Ritterman and Israeler in Krakow 1912-1941 (Jakobi); Józef Jacobsohn commercial franchise 1905-1937; Jaworznica Municipal Coal Mines S.A. (Schleicher, Neumann, Weintraub, Benis) Jaworzno Regional Coal Mining Board in Krakow; Jonkler office of bills discount [biuro eskontowania weksli]; Josefstahl commercial franchise and proxy representation of breweries 1908-1937.
IPHKr I 178: A. Karmel and Son ("Freylich and Karmel junior") trade in hardware 1912-1933; Karmel trade in women's outfits 1901-1937; Savings Bank of the town of Podgórze 1897-1929 (Ferber, Baruch, Haber, Aronsohn); Katz and company Krakow commercial and commission company for domestic products 1912-1936 (Katz, Bauminger); Katzner and Sons Krakow general trading company dealing in herring [1906] 1908-1940 (Katzner, Horowitz); Splitter Krakow (first as Splitter café, then Imperial Café Rapp and Kirsch from 1921); Kempler Krakow spices and delicatessen trade 1909-; Continental company for iron trade Kern and company (Zehwirth) head office in Lviv, branch in Krakow.
IPHKr I 194: Galician municipal war credit facility in Krakow, from 1922 headquarters in Lviv, branch in Krakow ([1915] 1917- (Gross, Natanson, Landy), Zacharski and company wholesaler of pharmaceutical materials (Einhorn, Gruenwald) [1904] 1908-1937; M. Wulkan steam and turbine mill 1936-1937 (Jew from Oświęcim, Mojżesz Wulkan); The First Małopolska Factory of Machine Belts Wurm and company (Sternlicht, Wurm) 1925-1932; Engineer Kazimierz Zieliński and company construction company in Krakow (Haas, Silberberg) [1915] 1916-1936.
IPHKr I 210: People’s Bank in Krakow Ltd. 1903-1923 (Blankstein, Lauer, Metzner, Breiter, from 1908 Pelz); cooperative banking fund [Kasa zaliczkowa] for printers and related professions in Krakow Ltd. 1910-? (Blaustein); Konsum Izrael Association 1920- (Rapaport, Deutscher, Leuchter); Cooperative Bank "Fortuna" 1921- (Goldstein, Engelstein, Regel, Wertheim); "Emunach", Jewish publishing company Krakow 1906 - (Aleksandrowicz, Syrop, Wahrhaftig, from 1912 Feldblum, Leser, Broder); Chemical products factory "Diana" company ltd. in Krakow 1917-1924 (Ferszt, Glueckstein).
- Archival history:
- The pre-war records of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Krakow were taken over after World War II by the State Archives in Krakow. Due to the wide range of economic activities, some of the Chamber's records could have been transferred to other archives (e.g. the State Archives in Rzeszów, Götz-Okocimski Archives in the National Archives in Krakow). The records of the Imperial-Royal Ministry of Industry and Trade (reference numbers HG2-HG5) and the Imperial-Royal Ministries of Iron Railways containing correspondence with the Krakow Chamber of Commerce and Industry are now stored at the Central Archives of Historical Records (AGAD) in Warsaw.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Krakow was economic self-government organisation that operated in the years 1850-1941 and then again from 1992. Its goal was to bring together industrialists, traders, bankers, and craftsmen, and to support the local economy. It also had interests in the area of transport, finance, and social affairs (social security, controlling the working time of workers, organisation of vocational education), which it influenced by way of submitting legislative proposals. It covered the Krakow province.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Aleksandrowicz
- Baruch
- Bauminger
- Benis
- Blankstein
- Blaustein
- Breiter
- Dattner
- Ehrenpreis
- Einhorn
- Engelstein
- Epstein
- Feldblum
- Ferszt
- Glueckstein
- Goldstein
- Gross
- Gruenwald
- Haas
- Hochstimm
- Horowitz
- Israeler
- Katz
- Katzner
- Leuchter
- Liban
- Mendelsburg
- Metzner
- Neumann
- Pelz
- Rapaport
- Regel
- Ritterman
- Schleicher
- Sternlicht
- Syrop
- Wahrhaftig
- Wertheim
- Wulkan, Mojżesz
- Wurm
- Zehwirth
- System of arrangement:
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29/318/0 / 2.2 / 166-29 / 318/0 / 2.2 / 194 Cadastre. Register A. Copies of court commercial register files regarding general partnerships and sole proprietorships. Krakow and counties
29/318/0 / 2.2 / 195-29 / 318/0 / 2.2 / 197 Cadastre. Register B. Copies of court commercial register files regarding joint stock companies of the city of Krakow.
29/318/0 / 2.2 / 198 Cadastre. Register B. Copy of court commercial register files regarding joint-stock companies in counties.
29/318/0 / 2.2 / 199-29 / 318/0 / 2.2 / 209 Cadastre. Register C. Copies of court commercial register files regarding limited liability companies in the city of Krakow.
29/318/0 / 2.2 / 210-29 / 318/0 / 2.2 / 214 Cadastre. Register of Cooperatives and Associations. Copies of court commercial register files regarding cooperatives and associations of the city of Krakow.
29/318/0 / 2.2 / 215-29 / 318/0 / 2.2 / 231 Cadastre. Register of Cooperatives and Associations. Copies of court commercial register files regarding Cooperatives and Associations - counties.
- Finding aids:
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T. Kargol, Izba Przemysłowo Handlowa w Krakowie w latach 1850-1939, Kraków 2003.
A. Kiełbicka, Izba Przemysłowo-Handlowa w Krakowie 1850-1950, Kraków 2003.
A printed inventory and online finding aids are also available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- The Taube Department of Jewish Studies of the University of Wrocław
- Author of the description:
- Przemysław Zarubin, Kraków, 2019
