The National Archives of Hungary (Budapest, 2006)

MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES - County Archives (Regional, general public archives) by Csaba Káli

small a part of it could be fulfilled. As for the county archives the only thing that was done that the inspectorship within the frames of Hungarian National Archives (Hungarian abbreviation: MOL) was created. Because of the socialist requirements towards the archives the forming party state could not adapt the morale and practical framing of this act. Mainly public administration was not able to avoid continuous reorganizations and centralization. The ancient, most of the time out-of-date system of counties was recut significantly at regional and most importantly content level in 1950. A new condition was formed for the Hungarian archives as a subsidiary element of the socialist jurisdiction procedure with the help of decree-law and that in fact formed the net of the county archives among other things. In a paradoxical way the decree law 29. of 1950 theoretically had the opposite effect on county archives. The state district archives - the adjudicative power of which would have covered several districts - did not come into being as a new element. The integration of settlement and regional general public archives came into being only with the help of the surviving county archives. The Hungarian archival society had to face new changes in 1952 realizing the unreal possibility of calling the district archives into being. The procedure of nationalizing public archives realized meanwhile was announced then by the ministerial instruction864-0111/1952. KM giving up the intention of calling the district archives into being, shortly legalizing the formed system of the county archives up to 1950. The state character was reflected even in the names from the year of 1952. So e.g. - like in the case of other archives - Vas County (state) Public Archives formed in 1950 became State Archives of Szombathely in 1952, the competence of which was still Vas county (Szombathely is the seat of Vas county). The rules of law of the next few years influenced the county archives just over other things. The Reading Room of the Archives of They caused smaller or bigger Tolna County changes in central control of the