Tanulmányok Budapest múltjából 33. 2006- 2007 (2007)

Forrás - Nagy Ágnes: Sarkadi Károly II. kerületi légoltalmi háztömbparancsnok és utóda, Müller László hivatali naplója 1944. július 24. - 1949. július 8.

Nagy, Ágnes OFFICIAL DIARY OF SARKADI KÁROLY, ANTI-RAID HOUSE COMMANDER OF THE 2

nd DISTRICT AND HIS FOLLOWER MÜLLER LÁSZLÓ 1944. JULY 24

TH- 1949. JULY 8™ (Source: Documents of the no. 22/18. house commissioner in the II. District, Budapest (19391945. March: house group - block anti-raid commander) Budapest Capital Archives, IX. 261.) The diary (1944. July 24

th and 1949. July 8

th

) was written and reported in a simple primary school writing book. The diary contains reports of two public office functions during war-years and also containing the documentations of the house commissioner function from March 1945. The block no. 22/18, which was the subject of these appointments contained the area outlined by Bimbó street - Pajzs street - Áldás street - Szemlőhegy street - Barsi street in Rózsa hill, 2

nd district. Including parts of Eszter and Ady, Endre streets, with 45 houses and about 550 inhabitants. The diary was flowingly administered by two house owners, written documentation was a part of their position. All events, arrangements they made was documented. The diary contained all official actions, without any personal comments, subjective understanding of the act. Also it worked as a register-book: adding the officiai documents first sticking them in, later with numeral registration. These actions documented in the book were communication, contact between inhabitants and public authorities through years when political power changed many times. During the war the anti-raid house commanders wrote about the war-situation, movements of front-lines within Budapest. While in the after-war times a great amount of control and regulation is to be sensed in the documentations, feeling it from the 'lowest' level of new-born authorities, the house commissioner with the power of a new regime forming in the background. Since the house commissioners took part in the executions of the authority's actions, these books became a record of the everyday mechanism of controlling the population. We find evidence in the historical notes of these books and separate documents which arrived to the Archive with them, to prove the power of these positions.