hu-002743-v 73
biographical history: Mayor (polgármester) was the leading official of the towns and cities in Hungary. The mayor was elected by the Municipal Committee and his powers were regulated by the statutes created by the Committee as well as by Act XXI of 1886 (73. §.) The scope of authority of the Mayor was significantly broadened by Act XXX of 1930, which handed over most of the functions of the City Council to the Mayor’s Office. The Mayor’s Office included several departments according to its main administrative and economic functions.
conditions of access: No restrictions on access
has or had script: Latn
has or had holder: hu-002743
scope and content: The collection holds the records of the Mayor, the head of the administration of the town of Cegléd between 1872 and 1950. Records from the years 1938-1944 include but not limited to documents concerning the implementation of Jewish Laws and antisemitic bureaucratic procedures, including the withdrawal of trade licences and permits, quitting rental agreements of Jews, exclusion of Jews from the municipal committee and social organizations, discharge of Jewish private and state employees, registration and expropriation of Jewish landholdings; administrative procedures against Jewish communities, various lists and conscriptions of Jewish traders, companies, real estate, stocks and lands, as well as memoranda, requests and petitions reflecting the antisemitic public mood, denunciations, reports against and investigation of the cases of Jewish individuals and companies, withdrawals of weapon permits, protocols of supervision of Jewish shops, inns, factories, pharmacies and other companies, appointments of authorized wholesalers and traders (discrimination against Jewish companies), decisions concerning trade, citizenship requests of Jews, decisions concerning Jewish landholdings and requests for Jewish lands. Wartime records include documents concerning military labour service of Jewish men, social aid to Jewish individuals, including war widows and orphans and family members of military labour servicemen, conversion and name magyarization cases, decisions concerning the work of military labour service companies, conscription lists, antisemitic incidents, activities of extreme right wing organizations and parties, bans of Jewish organizations, including local Zionist groups. The Holocaust-era part of the collection includes the implementation of the anti-Jewish decrees, internment of Jewish individuals, ghettoization, transit camps, the social and economic problems caused by the deportation of Jews, including the lack of doctors and other specialists, cases of Jewish do…
archival history: The records of the Mayor’s Office were taken over by its successor, the City Council of Cegléd in 1950. The City Council handed over the archival collection of the Mayor’s Office in the 1970s and 1980s to the Nagykőrös branch of the Pest County State Archives. The collection was re-arranged several times and reached its present form in 1987.
publication note: Ernő Lakatos, ed. A Magyar Állami Levéltárak fondjegyzéke, Vol. III. A Területi Levéltárak fondjegyzékei Part 13. A Pest Megyei Levéltár fondjainak jegyzéke. Budapest: Magyar Országos Levéltár, 1975.
title: Records of the Mayor of the Town of Cegléd, 1872-1944
archivist note: The description was prepared by László Csősz
record resource structure: The collection is divided into 11 provenance groups, numbered V.73. a-k., the most relevant of which are the Presidential records, 1891-1944 (V.73. a.), Administrative records, 1872-1944 (V. 73. b.), Taxation records, 1892-1925 (V. 73. c.), Records of military matters (V. 73. e.)., and the Records of the Public Supply Office (V. 73. j.). Administrative records are arranged by thematic groups numbered I to XXI by the major functions of the departments of the mayor’s office. Within the thematic groups, the records are mostly arranged by basic numbers, re-started each year.
has or had some members with language: hun
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1944
has record set type: Fonds
record resource source of information: http://lnyr.eleveltar.hu/MNLQuery/detail.aspx
type: RecordSet
record resource extent: 139,79 linear metres Textual records
has or had title: Cegléd város polgármesterének iratai 1872-1944
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1872
identifier: V. 73
other finding aids: 174339862.pdf