Zemský úřad Praha

The collection contains files generated from the official activities of the presidium and individual departments of the Provincial Office in Prague. Provincial Office Prague – Presidium (e.g., ordinance on the status of Jews in public life, box 883) Provincial Office Prague – Citizenship and Civil Registry Affairs (files on Czechoslovak citizenship and civil registry matters, including declarations of death, annulments of marriage) Provincial Office Prague – Church, Foundation, and Education Department (e.g., prohibition of Jewish children attending school, box 701; prohibition of visits to collections and museums for Jews, box 767; index of Jewish talent, series Ž, book 903) Provincial Office Prague – Trade and Business Affairs (e.g., takeover of trade measures from Jews, boxes 768–770) Provincial Office Prague – Social, Health, and Veterinary Affairs (e.g., isolation of Jewish patients in Prague hospitals, boxes 705–706) Provincial Office Prague – Financial, Military, Planning, Legal, Audit, and Personnel Affairs (e.g., Jewish mixed-race persons in public service, box 260) Provincial Office Prague – Accounting Department (e.g., Jewish foundation fund – income and expenditure, asset reports, books 301–303) Provincial Office Prague – Supplements (e.g., Jewish religious community – overview of parishes, list of pastors, various ordinances, civil registry matters, etc., box 104) The Provincial Office was an administrative authority with a wide-ranging agenda in all areas of internal administration of the Czech lands. It handled all matters that, at the highest level, fell within the jurisdiction of third-instance offices, i.e., individual ministries. After the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, the Provincial Administration replaced the former Czech Governorate with an office called the Provincial Political Administration, which from 1 December 1928 bore the name Provincial Office in Prague. It had authority over 103 district offices. The Provincial Offices were also assigned the administration of citizenship, associations, registration of foreigners, civil registries, foundations, and other matters. By 1934, in addition to the presidium, accounting offices, and secretariat, the office had 53 departments. After 15 March 1939, the Provincial Offices came under the direct supervision of the Reich Protector. In 1942, the ordinance on administration by order of the Reich, the so-called Reichsauftragsverwaltung (RAV), came into effect, transferring certain agendas of the Reich Protector’s Office in Bohemia and Moravia—such as the administration of mixed marriages—to the presidium of the Provincial Office. After the liberation of Czechoslovakia, public administration was taken over by national committees, which were declared the new organs of state authority in the Košice Government Program. The Provincial National Committee in Prague was established on 11 May 1945. It was dissolved on 24 February 1949, and its agenda was assumed by the regional national committees.