Działalność krakowskiego Oddziału Państwowego Banku Rolnego w pierwszych latach okupacji niemieckiej

• Authors: Mirosław Kłusek

Abstracts

EN

The whole of current scientifi c literature related to National Bank of Agriculture is only limited to its activity in interwar Poland. There’s a lack of publications, which might present providing credit to agriculture by National Bank of Agriculture during Nazis Occupation (1939–1945) and aft er Second World War. Th is article, which shows the activity of Cracow Department of National Bank of Agriculture in fi rst years of Nazis Occupation is the first from the series of planned publications, which aim is to fill this gap. The basic source base for writing this article constitutes materials from group of files National Bank of Agriculture Department in Cracow occur in National Archive in Cracow. Leaving National Bank of Agriculture and its personnel in occupation authorities policy was to served mainly quick and effective elimination prewar assets of a bank39. Bank was obliged to carry out debt collection action by German. It was made because of having given credits before Second World War, determined as “old operations”. To achieve it, it was necessary to make reconstruction of lost fi les and determine interests of prewar bank debtors, previously. Setting about for debt reconstruction before September 1939 in initial phase of another opening Cracow Department was necessity, too. Because of all cash missing, the only source for obtaining financial resources, necessary to further bank function became prewar loan repayments. Well then, amount of fi rst salaries for bank employers was dependent of receipts by virtue of installments. From the end of 1941 invader’s politics towards National Bank of Agriculture have changed signifi cantly. Aft er previous period of moderation and relative tolerance, work of Cracow Department, till war finish had taken place in very diffi cult conditions. The reason related to gaining conviction by governmental authorities of General-Government, and by confi dant himself of Heinrich Bank that since National Bank of Agriculture, as they planned beforehand, can’t be eliminated because elimination of all prewar bank operations presented sad, complicated and long process, it must be transformed from pure Polish institution to gradually Germanized bank, which would be totally absorbed by German credit system in the future.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Krakowskie Studia Małopolskie
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 12
• Pages: 246-262

Dates

published

2008

Contributors

author

Mirosław Kłusek

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/ksm200813

Biblioteka Nauki

2037467