Likwidacja wierzytelności instytucji kredytowych z byłego zaboru rosyjskiego przez Państwowy Bank Rolny w Polsce międzywojennej

Abstract

Liquidation of loans of credit institutions from the formerRussian partition of Poland by the National Bank ofAgriculture in the interwar Poland

(Summary)

After regaining independence of Poland in 1918, the General Institution of Mansion was responsible for the liquidation of former national Russian banks. Since 1922 liquidation and administration of liabilities of the Mansion Bank, that had been functioning in the area of Russian partition before the World War I, and the Noble Bank, which was only acting in eastern voivodeship, has been a task of the National Bank of Agriculture. According to President’s of Poland ordinances from 1924, an overall sum of loans of former Russian Mansion Banks that was to liquidate, was estimated for about 39 mln rubels. In situation when 1 rubel was equal 2,666 zloty, it gave the sum of about 103 mln zlotys. Meanwhile, a real sum of liabilities of former Russian banks was about 50 mln zlotys, which was revealed afterwards. The National Bank of Agriculture, that liquidated and administered of former Russian banks loans, was functioning not only in the interwar period. During Nazis’ occupation there were taken money from debtors of Noble Bank and the Włościański’s Bank, who stayed in the General Government, as well. After World War II, liabilities of already non-existing Mansion Bank, in that time in new borders of Poland, as well as small part of the former Noble Bank in Białostockie Voivodeship, was pointed to liquidation. Because of military operations almost all documents that proved liabilities had been destroyed. In that situation it was necessary to re-establish the debtors’ accounts. After accounts were known and necessary laws were accepted, the debtors of the Noble Bank and the Mansion Bank were obligated to pay back liabilities to the National Bank of Agriculture.