Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs (Prussia)

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Extension building of the former Prussian Ministry of Culture in Berlin's Wilhelmstrasse, from 1934 the seat of the Reich Ministry of Education, from 1949 of the GDR Ministry of National Education, 1952

The Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Affairs was a

Ministry of Interior
. The term "Ministry of Culture" was not used in official addresses but existed under various names and responsibilities until 1945.

History

The ministry had state supervision over the churches, was responsible for the Prussian school and university system and was gradually given responsibility for the state medical administration until 1849, for which the

Ministry of Interior had previously been responsible. For this task, the ministry was supported by the (royal scientific) deputation for the medical system, which was set up in 1808 and which was absorbed into the ministry in 1849.[1] In 1839, Prussia became the first continental European country to enact laws against child labor.[2]

The ministry's portfolio also included the

Royal Geodetic Institute in Potsdam and the Prussian Meteorological Institute
in Berlin.

At the time of the

Catholic Church. In response to the Vatican's disciplinary measures against opponents of the Pope's infallibility proclaimed at the Council of 1870, the ministry's Catholic Church Affairs Department passed a number of laws restricting church rights until 1874, banning the Jesuit order and withdrawing state funding from the church. After the conflict ended, Adalbert Falk resigned as Minister of Education in 1879.[3]

New building

After the service building was expanded in 1879 with a new building at

National Socialists closed shortly after they came to power because of its experimental nature.[5]

Post-World War II

After the end of

German Democratic Republic, the building on Wilhelmstrasse was rebuilt and used by the Ministry of National Education
until the fall of 1989.

List of culture ministers

Further information: List of culture ministers of Prussia

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-177-71711-3
    . Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  2. ISBN 978-0-691-22090-1
    . Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  3. ^ Albers, Josef (2022). Late Modernism, and Pedagogic Form. p. 39. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  4. ISBN 978-1-317-31914-6
    . Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  5. ^ Das preußische Kultusministerium als Staatsbehörde und gesellschaftliche Agentur (1817–1934), mit Beiträgen von Bärbel Holtz, Christina Rathgeber, Hartwin Spenkuch, Reinhold Zilch. 6 Bände. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2009 ff. (Acta Borussica. Neue Folge, 2. Reihe: Preußen als Kulturstaat, hrsg. im Auftrag der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften von Wolfgang Neugebauer).
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