The introduction of the 6 January Dictatorship in 1929 and the change in control of state, banovina, and municipal policy, and the global economic crisis left a powerful impression also on political life in Slovenia and affected the functioning of municipalities. The Municipality of Maribor was headed in the first period of established dictatorship when the members of Slovene People‘s Party were still involved in government by dr. Alojzij Juvan (1929–1931) yet when they excepted themselves from regime politics, the Municipality was headed by the representative of liberal camp dr. Franjo Lipold (1931–1935). In the spirit of the period, economic crisis and general savings, the new city administration soon attempted to reorganise the municipal administration. At the budgetary meeting in December 1931, special Department for Reorganisation of Municipal Administration was elected with mandate to establish reorganisation proposal according to which the reorganisation of a part of municipal administration were to be executed in order to eliminate deficiencies which occurred in these parts, whereas reorganisation should allow a simplification and reducing the price of administrative management, and better overview, easier management, more accurate work and in particular more reliable control over businesses. The first outcome resulted by reorganisation measures of municipal administration was the elimination of Maribor city companies and their merger into a single unit. Thus these companies merged into a single administrative, organisational, economic, financial, and property unit named Maribor City Companies (Mariborska mestna podjetja). Gainful activities of the Municipality of Maribor were included in the scope of work of the newly created unit thus enabling the separation from municipal administrative/policy and care actions. The object of operating activities was management of municipal institutions, establishments, and, from community policy of the Municipality of Maribor viewpoint, generally valuable or craft equipment, according to private economic principles. Upon the establishment, the following companies fell within the management of Maribor City Companies: City‘s Supply System, City Slaughterhouse, City Gas Company, City Electric Company, City Undertaking Business, City Bus Transport, City Swimming Baths, Mariborski otok, City Assets Management and Building Fund (all city buildings with the exception of city hall and city land) and building management/a part of City Construction Office which exercised work of entrepreneurship nature. By establishing City Companies the Municipality of Maribor was among the first municipalities in the state to separate economic operation from administrative operations even before the new Municipalities Act came into force in 1934 which stipulated the establishment of city gainful companies and ordered their operations to be market-oriented.