General administration of the formerly ruling Prussian royal family

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The general administration of the formerly ruling Prussian royal family is the successor institution of the Royal Prussian House Ministry that has existed since 1919 (operating under this name since 1925) .

History and function

The Schwerin Palace in Wilhelmstrasse, Kgl. prussia. House Ministry and from 1919 Reich President's Palace

During the years of the existence of the Hohenzollern kingship in Prussia (1700-1918), the House Ministry was an official institution under constitutional law with the administration of personal affairs, property (in particular property and agricultural and forestry goods) as well as the house archive of the Members of the Prussian royal house of Hohenzollern was concerned, the general administration has continued these tasks since the fall of the Hohenzollern monarchy in autumn 1918 as a public corporation under private law. The House Ministry was located in Palais Schwerin in Wilhelmstrasse until 1919 . After it was bought by the German Reich in 1919, the palace became the official residence of the Reich President.

After the abolition of the monarchy in Prussia, the house ministry was wound up as a state institution in 1919. The successor institution continued its work from 1919 to 1925 under the traditional name of "house ministry", although it was no longer de jure a ministry acted in the sense of a state authority of the highest order. From 1925 to 1941 the position was called "Treasury and Asset Management of His Majesty the Emperor and King Wilhelm II." It was only after the death of the Emperor that the name "General Administration of the formerly ruling Prussian royal house" was used. The term was coined in a legally binding form by a contract between the Prussian state and the members of the formerly ruling royal family in order to have a central office for the various administrative activities that this office continued in succession to the House Ministry.

The ruin of the Dutch Palace in the street Unter den Linden in Berlin on May 1, 1946

The head of the general administration is the official head of the House of Hohenzollern. Administrators who succeed the former house minister of the royal house are entrusted with the management of the business of the general administration. The official name of the same has changed several times in the past: So the heads of the general administration operated until the death of Wilhelm II in 1941 as "House Minister" or "General Plenipotentiary". Later they were mostly referred to simply as "Head of the General Administration of the formerly ruling Prussian royal family".

Until 1948 the seat of the general administration was the Dutch Palace in the street Unter den Linden in Berlin, although its front part was bombed out in the Second World War. The Dutch Palais was expropriated by the Soviet occupying power in 1945 without compensation, which, however, did not affect the activities of the general manager Wilhelm von Dommes in the house, nor did the war damage. It was not until 1948 that he was forced to relocate to West Berlin . In 1949 the general administration was relocated to West Germany.

Since July 1, 2019, the general administration has been in the Brandenburg state capital Potsdam. You are now based in a renovated, rented villa on the corner of Bertha-von-Suttner-Straße and Am Neuen Garten.

Head of the General Administration

Head of General Administration

Other employees of the general administration

  • Kurt Jagow , archivist in the general administration from 1928 to 1945
  • Ulrich von Sell , consultant in the general administration from 1927 to 1941 and 1942 to 1944 (arrested and interned as a result of July 20, 1944), from 1922 asset manager of Kaiser Wilhelm II, from 1929 to 1941 also head of the private box

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Prince of Prussia: God help our fatherland. The Hohenzollern House 1918-1945 , 2003, p. 18f.
  2. ↑ Bert Becker: The Dutch Palace: To the history of the house and its residents . In: Board of the German-Dutch Society e. V. (Ed.): In the footsteps of the Dutch between the Thuringian Forest and the Baltic Sea, 2nd Symposium , printed as a manuscript, Berlin 1994, p. 115.
  3. ↑ General administration of the Prussian royal house now in Potsdam. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .