The National Archives of Hungary (Budapest, 2006)

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL ARCHIVES OF NATIONAL COLLECTION - Hungarian National Archives by Géza Érszegi and István G. Vass

groups of numbers in 1952 - are put in a sequential series of reference numbers until 1961 and are grouped according to topics, years and themes from the year of 1962. The Home Office certified the nobility of thousands of individuals between 1867 and 1944 by granting certificates of nobility. A part of the copies of these documents were given over to Home Office as it was also considered as an advisory institution that can give expert opinion. These certificates of nobility, (1900- 1944) arranged in alphabetical order according to family names. The main building of the institution on Bécsi kapu square, suffered considerable damage are during both World War II and the revolution of 1956. The Reconstruction of National Archives, (1955 - 1962) include the documents about the reconstruction of the building, plans, drafts, budgets, contracts, reports of agreement and technical agreements, handing over and taking over notices, journals of building and assessment and financial settlements. The registerbooks of inner administrative files of Central Economic Archives, (1952 - 1963 were placed here. The cards on the documents relating to the history of the institution can be found in different fonds and the divisions of the archives at the beginning of the 1970s, the title of which is The History of National Archives, (1867 - 1970) and it can also be found here. The Economic Archives, (1867 - 1945 - Z section) the continuation of which is XXIX fond main group hold the documents of different economical institutions. Before World War II the National Archives did not collect reports and documents of companies. But owing to the policy of nationalization between 1945 and 1950, it became its duty to take over the documents of financial institutions, industrial and trade companies and co-operative societies. The National Centre of Archives began to take over documents of the nationalized big banks and share companies in January 1952. This task was done by an independent institution, the Central Economic Archives between 1953 and 1961. The Hungarian National Public Archives took over a great part of the collected documents and had other tasks when the former institution was abolished. The documents originally were listed in the Z section. However from the year of 1970, the New Hungarian Central Archives continued to collect the economic documents which originated after nationalization and registered the received documents into the fond main group XXIX. The documents of Pesti Magyar Kereskedelmi Bank Rt., Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest, (1842 - 1955) are of major importance among the documents of banks and finance houses. The bank played a very important part in each transaction of the finance house activity. More importantly it worked as the bank that funded the short lived independent Hungarian government of 1848. It also contributed to considerable industrial enterprises during both