COMERCIANŢI AI REȘIŢEI INTERBELICE
TRADERS IN REŞIŢA DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD

Summary/Abstract: The large demographic expansion in Reşiţa during the interwar period, a result of UDR [The Iron Works and Domains Resita] development, implicitly generated the clients number improving and, related to, a favorable climate in the overall economy progress. The palette of entrepreneurship in Reşiţa at that time registered both companies with a unique activity, mainly retail trade with mixed goods, and varios types of co‑operation: leasing, association and especially familial businesses. The familial businesses were mainly fraternal, the most significant samples being the companies of Fraţii/ Deutsch Brothers, Fraţii/ Markovsky Brothers, and Fraţii/ Bayer Brothers. None of them belonged to families of a Romanian origin, and it was another feature of the trade business in Reşiţa then (Deutsch Brothers – of a Mosaic origin; Markovsky Brothers – of a Polish origin; Bayer Brothers – of a German origin). Given the UDR economic boom and the image that the concern created, some of the traders found an opportunity in leasing businesses, with different connexed properties of UDR. So, Francisc Crăciun and, after, his sister Ana Crăciun managed “Oltenia” Cinema and Petru Gârlişteanu dealt with the UDR butcher’s. Some of the persons involved in the local administrative decisional fora were also identified as involving in such businesses. One of them, Petru Iacob, member of the Ad‑Interim Commission of Reşiţa and vice‑president of Reşiţa Board Appeal for Local Communal Duties, had a class A restaurant and also was a co‑owner (35% of shareas) of Philipp company. More than this, some sole proprietorships with over 1,000,000 lei capital are also to be noted down. Ioan Negru, Petru Lina, and Miloia Ioan were the ones who invested susten‑ able funds in their own businesses.

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