A kormányzói iroda iratai

In 1920, in order to facilitate the administrative work of the Regent of Hungary, new offices were established called the Cabinet Office, the Military Office and the Economic Office though the last of the three was soon merged into the Cabinet Office. A tiny fraction of their documents survived and many of the other materials of the Office of the Head of State was also destroyed. For the Cabinet Office, practically the only remaining documents are from the years 1945-46 and concern economic matters (K 588). The scope of these economic affairs was rather restricted as it concerned the salary of the Regent and the budget of the Cabinet Office. The papers from 1945-46, however, also concern some other economic measures, provide assessments of war damage, and also the abolishment procedure. A host of sections are of some relevance for the history of the Holocaust in Hungary. Most obviously, 1/F concerns the Jewish question, 1/B are letters from Prime Ministers, 1/C concern various Hungarian governments, 1/D discuss Hungarian political questions and parties, 1/G and I/J discuss the question of land reform and various economic matters, respectively, 1/H is on religious questions. Of the papers on foreign policy, 2/C on Hungarian-German relations is the most relevant.

The arrangement is artificial and was developed by the Hungarian National Archive on the basis of a previous Soviet arrangement. The arrangement is thematic and the items are numbered within each thematic section.