Course: Oberhollabrunn Administration at the beginning of 20th Century

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Course title Oberhollabrunn Administration at the beginning of 20th Century
Course code KAPV/PV315
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Holub Pavel, PhDr. Bc. Ph.D.
Course content
The course in full-time form includes the following topics by individual weeks: 1. Transformations of political administration offices in Bohemia until 1897 2. Transformations of political administration offices in Bohemia in the years 1897-1918 3. Methods of official activity in political and judicial administration offices at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries 4. Lower Austria as a center of administrative reform 5. Finding the way in Hollabrunn 6. Bohemia in the footsteps of Lower Austria? 7. Prominent personalities of efforts to transform administrative work 8. Questionnaires as a source of knowledge after a hundred years? 9. Official books as a distinctive product of the official activity of district governors 10. Norm as a prototype for the knowledge of official written production? 11. File overviews, master numbers and other specifics of the new office regulations 12. Norms and daily operations of the office 13. Selected questions from a case study focused on the District Governor's Office in Humpolec 14. The Oberhollabrunn system and the first republic

Learning activities and teaching methods
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Learning outcomes
The aim of the selected lecture will be to present the efforts to transform the official conduct of district governorships at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The cradle of these changes was Lower Austria, from where the interest spread to Bohemia and other crown lands of the Austro-Ungarian Empire. The so-called Oberhollabrunn system, which is currently known in Austria as the Kielmansegg system, was applied in Bohemia only to a few offices, but with its concept of editing some types of documents it interfered with the operation of most others, especially during the First Republic. At this time, registers were introduced, the form of which was based on the forms of filing diaries kept according to the Lower Austrian model. Several questionnaire surveys became part of the efforts to implement a new way of office work, which provide information on the form of office work at first-instance state administration offices at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, with a gap of one century.
Students will learn about the development of the filing service at the end of the Austro-Hungarian period, when it was necessary to deal with the huge increase in documents in state and local government offices.
Prerequisites
None

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
As part of their self-study, students deal with topics included in the required literature and especially in the subject support.
Recommended literature
  • Ivo Beneda ? Filip Dienstbier ? Vlastimil Fiala ? Monika Horáková ? Pavel Marek ? Magdaléna Peterková ? Olga Pouperová ? Lucie Rentková ? Eduard Vlček ? Veronika Vlčková. Historický vývoj právní úpravy správního řízení a dalších postupů ve veřejné správě v českých zemích (1918?2005). Olomouc, 2007.
  • Kurt Hürbe. Die Bezirkshauptmannschaft in Niederösterreich. Kompetenzen, Funktion, Arbeitsweise. St. Pölten - Wien, 1974.
  • Pavel Holub. Oberhollabrunnský systém spisové služby a okresní úřad v Humpolci v polovině 20. století, Archivní časopis 61, 2011, č. 1, s. 5?78..
  • Pavel Holub. Úřední knihy u okresních hejtmanství na přelomu 19. a 20. století. Příspěvek k problematice novověké diplomatiky, Archivní časopis 69, 2019, č. 3, s. 229-294..
  • Vácslav Babička. Číslo jednací a spisová značka, Archivní časopis 58, 2008, č. 1, s. 1-14..


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