Kemény János: Baja thj. város 1944-1949. évi története a polgármesteri jelentések tükrében 1. - Forrásközlemények 12. (Kecskemét, 2015)
Mellékletek - Summary
Summary The introduction of the volume describes in short the legal background of the post of mayor, detailing the laws, decrees and municipal statutes which regulated the tasks of the mayor. After this, it summarizes the activities of the mayors of Baja from 1851 to 1949, on hand of the general meeting minutes describing the period between 1944 and 1949 in greater detail. The summary provides information on the structure of the volume, and describes the method of publishing documents. The study published in the current volume summarizes the contents of the documents in 14 chapters, easing the task of researchers working on the topics. The readers and researchers can study the 50 documents, which were created between 1944 and 1949, on various topics like the reorganization of the local governance and the police, the founding of the new parties, the conduct of the representatives of these parties, the parliamentary elections and the tasks that had to be executed by the city of Baja as part of the three year plan. The published reports are detailing the mayoral elections, the census conducted as part of resettlement of the German minorities, the cut-backs (the so called B-listing),331 the disciplinary actions taken against the local representatives, the process of taking agencies and institutes into state ownership, the measures taken in order to reduce housing problems, and the related flat registry, and even about the property reforms of October 1949. They are detailing the war damages, the reconstruction starting in November 1944, the restarting of road and railroad traffic, the ship traffic on the Danube, the electricity and gas services, the restoration and expansion of public institutions, the planning and building of new institutions, the reorganization of cultural life, public education, public supply and 331 These layoffs were based on political loyalty in the public administration sector. 748
