ARHIVSKI VJESNIK 51. (ZAGREB, 2008)

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Summary CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF SAVINGS-BANKS IN MEĐIMURJE, TILL THEIR LIQUIDATION AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR (1920-1949) By pronouncement of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on December l

st 1918, a new State was created on the territory of South-East Europe, through the union of the Kingdom of Serbia and Monte Negro, and the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. After the Treaty of Piece signed in Trianon on June 4

th 1920, territories given to the direct government of Hungary during the Habsburg's Monarchy, i.e. Međimurje, Prekmurje and Baranya, were now returned to the newly established State, and immediately included into its economical scene. Besides industrial and commercial companies, financial institutions also existed on the territory of Međimurje, and amongst them savings-banks, too. The savings-banks were namely: Savings-Bank of Čakovec and Međimurje (Čakovečkomeđimurska štedionica), Savings-Bank of Prelog (Preloška štedionica), SavingsBank of Down Međimurje (Donjo-međimurska štedionica), Savings-Bank of Strigova (Strigovska štedionica), Savings-Bank of Kotoriba (Kotoribska štedionica), and Regional Savings-Bank of Čakovec (Čakovečka regionalna štedionica). Savings-Bank of Strigova was liquidated in 1923, and Regional Savings-Bank of Čakovec, since 1921, continued working as a branch-office of Croatian All-Out Credit Bank (Hrvatska sveopća kreditna banka) from Zagreb. Remaining savings-banks, dating from 19

th Century, continued working in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, some of them also in the period of Hungárián occupation during the WWII. They continued functioning tili the liquidation in 1948 and 1949. Savings-banks were involved in different financial activities, like crediting physical and legal persons, savings compounding, buying and selling real estates and securities, establishing or participating in establishment of new companies, safe-keeping of values, with appropriate fee. Some of them, like Savings-Bank of Kotoriba, even participated in the trade of securities on the stock-markets in Zagreb and Belgrade, and mediated in securing houses and economical objects. By crediting industrial and commercial companies or physical persons, as agriculturers, they influenced economical development of Međimurje. Besides, through giving certain amounts for humanitarian purposes they were improving position of population of Čakovec and whole Međimurje, and affected public life of wider Community. Key words: Međimurje, savings-bank, directorate, supervisory bord, general meeting Translated by Rajka Bućin