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Gemerská banka, Rimavská Sobota
Gemerská banka (Gemer Bank) in Rimavská Sobota held its inaugural general meeting on 31 March 1920 and issued share capital amounting to 500,000 Czechoslovak crowns (Kč). The administrative board was chaired by the Gemer county head Janko Jesenský and the other board members were Fedor Jesenský, Ján Maláth, Ján Usam, Július Botto and Samuel Daxner.
Tatra banka in Martin proposed the bank and provided capital for it as a way to penetrate the Gemer region. Gemerská banka was thus affiliated with Tatra banka. The Hungaria building was purchased for the bank’s offices and they opened after modification work was completed on 1 August 1920. The managing director, Mikuláš Polóny, was seconded from Tatra banka. Soon after its establishment, the bank began lending to local businesses. It financed the firm Bratia Dickman, obchod s petrolejom (a parafin trader) and Skladištné družstvo na nákup cukru (a sugar wholesale cooperative) amongst others. These credit transactions were financed by a rediscounting loan from Tatra banka, which amounted to Kč 5 million by November 1920. Since Gemerská banka was unable to pay this debt, Tatra banka proposed merging the two institutions. The merger was approved by a general meeting of Gemerská banka on 4 December 1920, as a result of which it ceased to exist as an independent financial institution and became Tatra banka’s branch in Rimavská Sobota.
The Archives of Národná banka Slovenska hold only one document from the short existence of Gemerská banka – the minutes of the bank’s management board in 1920, which also contains the minutes of the administrative committee of the Tatra banka branch to 1926. The archival fonds was processed in the archive of Štátna banka československá (State Bank of Czechoslovakia) in Ružomberok, where it was kept until 1993. In this year it was transferred to the Archives of Národná banka Slovenska where it was revised in 2016.
Last updated: Thursday, January 26, 2023