Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests (Prussia)
The Prussian Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forestry (German: Ministerium für Landwirtschaft, Domänen und Forsten was the Ministry of Agriculture of the State of Prussia. It was established in the Kingdom of Prussia in 1848 and continued to exist in the Free State of Prussia. In 1935, the ministry was merged with the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture. The official headquarters was in Berlin.
History
The establishment of the ministry was initiated by point 5 of King Frederick William IV's decree of June 25, 1848 to the State Ministry requiring that the administration of agricultural affairs should be separated from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Public Works and a separate ministry should be formed. Frederick William IV chose the city's general counsel, Rudolf Eduard Julius Gierke, to appoint as Minister of State.
The ministry's initial responsibilities initially included the agricultural police, the regulation of the landlord-peasant relationships, the division of the commons (dissolution of the commons), the replacement of the feudal burdens, the fisheries police as well as the supervision of the institutions for the promotion of agriculture and the agricultural educational institutions.
Expansions
The ministry's areas of responsibility were gradually expanded to include the stud system (on August 11, 1848), the consultation on veterinary police matters (on June 22, 1849), the dike system (on November 26, 1849), the co-supervision of the pension banks (on March 2, 1850) and the implementation of the hunting police law (on March 7, 1850). On April 27, 1872, the veterinary sector was separated from the
By further Royal decree of August 7, 1878 and, by law of March 13, 1879, the domains and forests areas were separated from the
At the turn of the century, the ministry was divided into three departments: the department for agricultural and stud farm affairs, the department for domains and the department for forestry and hunting matters. The department for agricultural and stud farm affairs was responsible for supervising the state economics college, the agricultural colleges, the higher regional cultural court, the central moor commission, the agricultural credit institutions, the main and state stud farms as well as the technical deputation for the veterinary sector along with the veterinary universities in Berlin. The department for forestry and hunting matters supervised the forestry examination commission and the forestry academies.[1]
Post World War I
After
On January 1, 1935, the ministry was incorporated into the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture, which was founded in 1919 and was called the "Reich and Prussian Ministry for Food and Agriculture" until 1938.[3]
List of ministers
References
- ^ a b c Dornheim, Prof. Dr. Andreas (2011). "Rasse, Raum und Autarkie Sachverständigengutachten zur Rolle des Reichsministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft in der NS-Zeit" (PDF). www.bmel.de (in German). Berlin: Otto Friedrich University Bamberg. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
(Revised version of the original version with the title Expert report "Role and content of agricultural policy and agricultural research of predecessor institutions of the Federal Ministry for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture" dated February 28, 2006)
- ^ Robert Hue de Grais: Handbuch der Verfassung und Verwaltung in Preußen und dem Deutschen Reiche. 25. Auflage. Springer, Berlin 1930, S. 62–63.
- ^ Friedrich Nobis: Das Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten. 2. überarb. Auflage, Boldt, Bonn 1971, S. 11–16 (= Ämter und Organisationen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 5).