Ústředna obchodních a živnostenských komor, Praha

The fonds contains material on the organisation, development and personnel issues of the headquarters, minutes of meetings, documents on its legislative activities, as well as material on economic developments in the Czechoslovakia and abroad, tax and customs policy, fairs and congresses, pricing policy, etc. Many documents concern foreign trade, international trade agreements, reports of the Czechoslovak embassies to the headquarters (situation on local markets, characteristics of individual enterprises). In particular, the following issues concern the Jews: 13007 - reporting of Jewish property in Germany (Box 468), 4593 - removal of Jews from the Protectorate economy (Box 519), 5153 - registration of Jewish property (Box 521), 3544 and 6465 - integration of Jews into the workforce (Boxes 543 and 562), 3711 - shopping time for Jews (Box 544), 7049 - legal status of Jews in public life (Box 689). The Headquarters of the Commerce and Trade Chambers in the Czechoslovak Republic was established in 1922. The Chambers of Commerce and Trade defended the interests of the associated entrepreneurs, issued certificates and various publications, and were used by the state administration to support the local economy. The Headquarters was created as a free association on the basis of municipal law. It was supposed to help adapt the Chambers of Commerce and Trade to the conditions of the newly established Czechoslovakia and give a solid organizational form to mutual cooperation of the Chambers. Under the Protectorate, the scope of the Headquarters and individual chambers was considerably limited. In the years of 1945-1948, the chambers resumed their activities to the original extent, but after the communist coup they were abolished.