Contribution to the history of savings-banks in me？imurje, till their liquidation after The Second World War (1920.-1949.)

Sa？etak By pronouncement of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on December 1st 1918, a new state was created on the territory of South-East Europe, through the union of the Kingdom of Serbia and Monte Negro, and the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. After the Treaty of Piece signed in Trianon on June 4th 1920, territories given to the direct government of Hungary during the Habsburg's Monarchy, i.e. Me？imurje, Prekmurje and Baranya, were now returned to the newly established state, and immediately included into its economical scene. Besides industrial and commercial companies, financial institutions also existed on the territory of Me？imurje, and amongst them savings-banks, too. The savings-banks were namely: Savings-Bank of ？akovec and Me？imurje (？akove？kome？imurska ？tedionica), Savings-Bank of Prelog (Prelo？ka ？tedionica), Savings-Bank of Down Me？imurje (Donjo-me？imurska ？tedionica), Savings-Bank of ？trigova (？trigovska ？tedionica), Savings-Bank of Kotoriba (Kotoribska ？tedionica), and Regional Savings-Bank of ？akovec (？akove？ka regionalna ？tedionica). Savings-Bank of ？trigova was liquidated in 1923, and Regional Savings-Bank of ？akovec, since 1921, continued working as a branch-office of Croatian All-Out Credit Bank (Hrvatska sveop？a kreditna banka) from Zagreb. Remaining savings-banks, dating from 19th century, continued working in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, some of them also in the period of Hungarian occupation during the WWII. They continued functioning till the liquidation in 1948 and 1949. Savings-banks were involved in different financial activities, like crediting physical and legal persons, savings compounding, buying and selling real estates and securities, establishing or participating in establishment of new companies, safe-keeping of values, with appropriate fee. Some of them, like Savings-Bank of Kotoriba, even participated in the trade of securities on the stock-markets in Zagreb and Belgrade, and mediated in securing houses and economical objects. By crediting industrial and commercial companies or physical persons, as agriculturers, they influenced economical development of Me？imurje. Besides, through giving certain amounts for humanitarian purposes they were improving position of population of ？akovec and whole Me？imurje, and affected public life of wider community