ARHIVSKA GRAĐA AUSTROUGARSKE UPRAVE U HISTORIJSKOM ARHIVU SARAJEVO
ARCHIVAL SOURCES OF THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN ADMINISTRATION IN THE HISTORICAL ARCHIVES OF SARAJEVO

Summary/Abstract: The important archival fonds of the Austro-Hungarian administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina which are kept in the Historical Archives of Sarajevo are: Municipal government of the city of Sarajevo and the Government’s commissioner for the provincial capital. This paper also mentions other archival fonds such as the 1910 Census and the Collection of maps and town plans which could be of significant use to researchers and other persons interested in the topic. These archival fonds pertain to Sarajevo, but also to the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Their significance is even greater if we take into consideration the fact that these are the only complete fonds of the local administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the period from 1878 to 1918. The municipal government communicated with all instances of administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Monarchy. However, the principle of work of the administrative apparatus in Bosnia and Herzegovina went through the following system: The common ministry (Government) and the Common ministry of finances – The Department for Bosnian and Herzegovinian affairs - The Provincial government for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Provincial financial directory - the regional, district, town and municipality administrations, The Supreme court and regional courts. This was the system in which the administration functioned and communicated. Together with municipal representatives/council and the Municipal government, as the executive organ of this council, there was also a Government’s commissioner for the provincial capital Sarajevo. The area of Sarajevo had its own special statute. According to it the city was a municipality which undertook various city works and administered the communal property through a special representative council. The city area was separated from the competences of the regional and district office. The Government’s commissioner was entrusted with the administration of public order and security, the issuing of various licenses but he was also in charge of controlling the work of the Municipal government of the city of Sarajevo and the City council, where he functioned as an official representative of the supreme power in the state. Due to the preserved data in the fonds of the provincial institutions from the Austro-Hungarian period in the Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Historical Archives of Sarajevo, there is a possibility of completing of certain fonds. The making of analytical summaries and analytical inventories of these fonds is therefore a priority and a challenge at the same time.

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