Aspects de l’activité de la Mairie de Timişoara pendant l’année 1942
Aspects from the activity of Timisoara’s Municipality in 1942

Summary/Abstract: World War, the Municipality of Timișoara faced a series of complex problems, such as supplying the population with products of strict necessity, providing financial and material support to the refugees and to the educational and cultural institutions from the territories lost by Romania in 1940, solving the difficult issues faced by its subordinated enterprises etc. In the extraordinary conditions given, the decision makers of the Municipality imposed a series of measures to rationalize consumption, managing to keep prices under control. As a result the population of Timișoara did not suffer from the lack of the necessities of life. Significant amounts of money were assigned from Municipality’s budget to support poor people, refugees from the ceded territories, as well as social institutions belonging to the Municipality. At the same time, the cultural establishments (including the Romanian Opera and the National Theater from Cluj, which during the war found shelter in Timișoara), schools (including vocational ones) and higher educational institutions, religious denominations and sport associations were supported financially. One of the most remarkable achievements, to which the Municipality of Timișoara had a major contribution, was the construction of the seismological station in the capital of Banat, the second most important in Romania from a scientific point of view. Despite the financial difficulties, the urban works concerning the maintenance of the buildings, the extension of the green space and the water network continued. As it regards the enterprises that were part of the Economic Establishments of the Municipality of Timișoara, the Communal Cinemas, the Slaughterhouse, the Ice Factory, the Bath and the Communal Beaches registered important profits. A difficult situation was faced by the Stone Quarries, the Sand Quarry, the Funeral Homes and the Lawn Office, while the Brick Factory managed to sit upright, all in all, at the end of the year. Among the causes of the impasse were: the lack of manpower due to mobilizations, the spiral of market prices, the failure to make a serious analysis of the phenomenon, the failure to adapt sale prices to those of the cost, technological deficiencies, the lack of railcars for the transport of goods, the non- existence of rationalization within the technological process. Thus, through the efforts made by the management, as well as by its employees, the normal activity of the institution was ensured and the development of the city continued in an extremely complicated time of war.

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