sk-003250-3780
type: RecordSet
appraisal: No data available.
archival history: Documents of CEO were transferred to the archive from the Commission for the Industry and Commerce (Povereníctvo pre priemysel a obchod). The fonds is not fully preserved. The majority of the agenda of Department VII is not preserved. Part of the documents (the majority of files about the so-called Aryanization of businesses) was incorporated into the agenda of Department VII (Restitutional department) of the Commission for the Industry and Commerce before the transfer to archive.
archivist note: Fonds was identified and described by Ján Hlavinka.
biographical history: The Central Economic Office (CEO, Ústredný hospodársky úrad) was one of the offices of the Slovak Republic (1939 – 1945). It played the crucial role in the process of the so-called Aryanization of Jewish property in Slovakia. The CEO was created according to the Ruling No.222/1940 of September 16, 1940. The above-mentioned ruling awarded the CEO the competence to “conduct everything necessary to exclude Jews from the economy and to transfer their property into the hands of Christians,” and the CEO assumed all responsibility for the preparation and execution of the so-called liquidation and Aryanization of the Jewish property, except for farmland. Until the creation of the Central Economic Office, the process of Aryanization of Jewish property mostly affected the business property and it was under control of the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic, the County offices and several other state bodies. The creation of the Central Economic Office was the result of the strengthening of radical wing within the ruling Hlinka's Slovak People´s Party and the leader of radicals Slovak Prime Minister Vojtech Tuka. So-called Radicals led by Tuka were strengthened after German-Slovak negotiations in Salzburg. Tuka, who criticized the Ministry of Economy and other offices for the (allegedly) slow pace of “Aryanization” decided to centralize the Aryanization in the CEO and control it. That is why he appointed his protégé Augustín Morávek into the position of CEO´s Chairman, and that is also the reason why the CEO was formally subordinated to the Prime Ministers Office. Within next two years the CEO gained control over all kinds of property of Jews in Slovakia (with exception of farmland and agriculture-related assets) and in case of enterprise property it liquidated more than 10,000 businesses and transferred the ownership of another 2,200 businesses into the hands of Slovaks, Germans, Ruthenians living in Slovakia. Besides that, thousands of houses and apartments of Jewish o…
has or had script: Latn
other finding aids: Printed inventory created in 1957, Researchers´ Room of the archive.
accruals: No data available.
conditions of access: Partially acessible. Part of the fonds, called"Dodatk" is not accessible.
has beginning date: 1940
has creator: 658
has end date: 1945
has or had holder: sk-003250
has or had some members with language: slk
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had subject: 434
has or had subject: 334
has or had subject: 658
has or had title: The Central Economic Office
has or had title: ÚHÚ
has record set type: Fonds
identifier: 3780
record resource extent: 704 boxes, paper documents.
scope and content: The Central Economic Office (Ústredný hospodársky úrad) was one of central offices of the Slovak Republic (1939-1945) with the statewide competences related to so called"Aryanizatio" of Jewish property. The fond contains documents about the Liquidation and Aryanization of businesses, disposal of Real estate property of Jews, Work permissions as well as documents about the activities of Jewish Center (Ústredňa Židov). Preserved documents are from the period between 1940 - 1945.
title: Ústredný hospodársky úrad