Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1922-1937 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
105 boxes
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Histoire administrative
After its foundation in 1919, the Republic of Austria was unable to overcome serious economic and financial difficulties. Therefore the Republic of Austria appealed to international solidarity and addressed, in 1922, the League of Nations to request assistance.
Apart from a mission of the Financial Committee in Vienna in 1921, the League of Nations did not officially deal with the economic and financial situation of Austria before the end of 1922, when the Austrian Government requested the Allied Powers' help. This request was referred to the Council of the League of Nations.
The Council of the League of Nations and its advisory body, the Financial Committee were, indeed, concerned with analysing Europe's post-war financial disorder, as well as studying and carrying out plans for financial recovery. The Financial Committee, which was belonging to the Economic and Financial Section, was founded at the Brussels International Financial Conference of 1920 organized to solve the problem of the world financial crisis.
Financial assistance and control were organized for Austria through the Geneva Protocols (signed on 4 October 1922 and ratified by Austria on 2 December). A new temporary delegation of the Financial Committee representing the League of Nations in Vienna was appointed from 17 October to 16 December 1922 and later on a General Commissioner was also appointed. Both of them ceased their action on 30 June 1926 with the exception of the Loan Control Committee (reconstruction loan: Loan Trustee Service), which did not disappeared at the same time.
A detailed programme was worked out to balance the Austrian budget within approximately two years, and the country was given a loan of 26 million pounds sterling. In 1924, under the control of the League of Nations, the internal economy and the public financial system were reformed, and the budget was balanced. In 1926, the League of Nations' control was withdrawn.
This success, which was financial rather than economic, has naturally been compromised by the world depression, which began in 1929.
Histoire archivistique
The fonds of the "Financial reconstruction of Austria" only consists of files from the second delegation of the Financial Committee, which prepared the work for the General Commissioner and the implementation of the Geneva Protocols.
This fonds mainly consists of files from the Office of the Commissioner General, as well as files from the delegation of the Financial Committee and the Loan Control Committee (Loan Trustees).
The files of the Commissioner General were transferred to Geneva in 1926 and were followed by those of the Loan Control Committee (Loan Trustees) in 1928 only.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Public
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Finding aids
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Zone des notes
Note
Protection period to: 1997-12-31
Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)
Scope ID
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
Mots-clés - Lieux
Mots-clés - Noms
Mots-clés - Genre
Zone du contrôle de la description
Identifiant de la description
Identifiant du service d'archives
Rules and/or conventions used
Statut
Niveau de détail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Langue(s)
Écriture(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Protection period duration: 0
Archivist's note
Protection period note:
Archivist's note
Permission: No permission necessary.
Archivist's note
Physical usability: Without limits
Archivist's note
Term of protection: Accessible (0)