Headquarters of Chambers of Commerce and Trade, Prague / NAD 374

Headquarters of Chambers of Commerce and Trade, Prague / NAD 374 

Ústředna obchodních a živnostenských komor, Praha 

Headquarters of Chambers of Commerce and Trade, Prague / NAD 374 

Ústředna obchodních a živnostenských komor, Praha 

Textual material 186,10 linear meters 

The fonds includes materials on the organization, development and personnel matters of the Headquarters, minutes from meetings, documents on its legislative work; materials on the economic development in the Czechoslovak Republic and abroad, tax and customs policies, trade fairs and congresses, pricing policy, combating usury, etc.; numerous documents on foreign trade, international trade agreements, reports of Czechoslovak embassies for the Headquarters (situation on local markets, characteristics of individual companies in individual countries). Information on Jews can be specifically found in the following materials: the operation of real estate agencies and credit bureaus by non-Aryans (in 1939), the reporting of Jewish property in Germany (in 1938); other materials after 1939 such as Jewish property, the legal status of Jews, their exclusion from economic life, forced labor, the appointment of administrators to non-Aryan enterprises, the returning of property to Jews in 1945. Materials concerning individual Jewish entrepreneurs can also be expected to be found there. 

The fonds is divided as follows: a) Registry finding aids (protocols, registers), b) Files: sorted chronologically according to individual years; the inventory gives sample records; at the end, there are material files with and without registration numbers.