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Gemerská sporiteľňa a úverná banka, Rimavská Sobota
Gemerská sporiteľňa a úverná banka (Gemer Savings and Credit Bank) was established in 1897 with share capital of 100,000 Austro-Hungarian crowns (K) in the form of 1,000 shares with a nominal value of K 100. It was registered in the Rimavská Sobota County Court under the Hungarian name Gömörmegyei takarékpénztár és hitelbank, r. t. It was initially led by Béla Ruthényi as chairman of the board of directors, Martin Stolc as managing director and Jakub Jurasko as chairman of the supervisory board.
The bank prospered, growing its share capital to K 200,000 in 1905 and K 500,000 in 1916. In 1910 it participated in the establishment of the Hajnáčka Savings Bank and the Gemer Trading Company in Rimavská Sobota, which specialised in logging and the sale of timber. Before the First World War, the bank made relatively high profits, increasing from K 5,000 in 1898 to K 62,000 in 1913. After the outbreak of war, profits began to decrease and reached K 41,000 in 1916. The bank operated until 1920 when the Savings Bank Act forced its transformation and it became Gemerská úverná banka (Gemer Credit Bank) under general director Viliam Möller.
A small number of documents recording the bank’s activities have been preserved, mainly in Hungarian, and may be of interest to scholars studying the history of banking in Slovakia especially regarding the activity of a local credit institution in the ethnically mixed territory of southern Slovakia in the first half of the twentieth century.
When the archival documents were taken over by Štátna banka československá (State Bank of Czechoslovakia), they were first held in the corporate archives in Ružomberok, where they were put in order and a temporary inventory was made in 1968. The temporary inventory was revised after the fonds was transferred to the archives of Národná banka Slovenska in Bratislava in 1993.
Last updated: Monday, November 11, 2024