Classement sociale du conseil municipal de la ville de Pécs (1918 – 1944)

Abstract

The purpose of the study. The purpose of this study is to compare the legislative authority committee of Pécs during the dualism period, before the Serbian occupation, with the legislative authority committee of Pécs between the two world wars. The study also includes an examination of Article XXX of Act 1929 on the regulation of public administration. Applied methods. The study aims to processing the documents of the Hungarian National Archives of Baranya County - the minutes of the municipal committee, committee documents -local newspapers and local history books. In addition to the analysis of narrative sources, italso analyses them statistically. Outcomes. Until 1929, the municipal committee of the city of Pécs consisted of half of the most tax-paying members (virilis) and half of elected members. The three main occupational groups of the municipal committee were intellectuals, industrialists and merchants. After the Serbian occupation in 1921, the old, incomplete municipal committee met, in which the Hungarian Social Democratic Party no longer had a representative. The city administration and the municipal committee, were sabotaged the supplementation of the municipal committee and the by-elections, because they were afraid of the Social Democrats. The social composition of the new municipal committee in 1929, was substantially changed, in 1930 45.2% of the members of the municipal committee belonged to the civil service and liberal professions and 47.4% belonged to the mining and metallurgy, industry, trade and credit, transport occupational groups.