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Obchodná banka, Košice
Obchodná banka, účastinná spoločnosť (Commercial Bank, joint-stock company), Košice, was founded on 24 February 1939 with share capital of 1 million pengő. This was represented by 10,000 shares each having a nominal value of 100 pengő. The majority shareholder was the Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest in Budapest. The bank was authorised to carry out all banking transactions permitted by law including taking deposits, arranging loans, selling and buying real estate, recovering debts and providing safekeeping/custody services.
Few data are available on the bank’s activities before 1948, when it was already in liquidation. The balance sheet for 1948 shows deposits of 8.2 million Czechoslovak crowns (Kčs), current account debt in the amount Kčs 3.5 million, contested promissory notes worth Kčs 1.6 million, foreign payments for Kčs 3.2 million, tied claims against other domestic financial institutions amounting to Kčs 11.1 million, real estate with a value of Kčs 1.45 million, material expenditures of Kčs 72,000 and personal costs of Kčs 291,000.
The members of the administrative and supervisory boards included Barna Tost, Ladislav Tost, Karol Szakmáry, Štefan Oelschläger and František Oelschläger. The managing director was Gottfried Chochstadter with Eugen Forbát as his deputy; Andrej Lipták was an authorised signatory and Arnošt Vilkovský was treasurer. Obchodná banka was placed in liquidation on 23 March 1945. Ján Hajzuk, the manager of the branch of Sedliacka banka in Košice, was appointed liquidator. Under Decree No 265/50 of the Ministry of Finance, the bank was taken over with universal succession by Slovenská všeobecná úverná banka, Bratislava, in 1950.
The preserved fragments of Obchodná banka’s documentation were found amongst material from Slovenská všeobecná úverná banka in the building of Štátna banka československá at 2 Stalingrad Street in Košice. After 1990 the fonds was deposited to the archive of Národná banka Slovenska at 27 Krajná Street in Bratislava and in 2003 it was moved to the building at 8 Cukrová Street in Bratislava.
An inventory of a part of the material was made in 1963 and this was supplemented and revised at the Archives of Národná banka Slovenska in 2016. The archival fonds includes mainly account books and documents on the liquidation of the bank after the Second World War.
Last updated: Friday, December 29, 2023