Historical Imperial Commission

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The Historical Reich Commission (HRK) in Berlin was founded on March 9, 1928 as a working group of historians chaired by Friedrich Meinecke and existed until 1935, when it was replaced by the Reich Institute for the History of the New Germany under the National Socialist Walter Frank . This historical commission laid down in its statutes the task of "researching the history of the new German Empire". The founding of the Reich in 1871 was a particular focus of work, on which several files were published by 1933. Hermann Oncken was the deputy chairman until 1934who then presided over for a year.

Since May 1933, the Reich Ministry of the Interior has financed projects on World War I and post-war research under Paul Kluke and Erich Otto Volkmann , in order to have a stronger influence on research in the interests of the new rulers. In 1935 the ministry decided to have the tasks of the Reich Commission carried out in future by a Reich Institute, whereupon the Reich Institute for the History of New Germany was founded. In the absence of further funding, the commission disbanded on April 27, 1935, leaving behind “a rubble field of unfinished work” ( Walter Goetz ).

Publications of the Reich Commission

  • Historical-political archive on German history in the 19th and 20th centuries . Quelle and Meyer, Leipzig 1930/1932.

literature

  • Walter Goetz: The Historical Reich Commission of 1928. In: Historisches Jahrbuch 72, 1953, pp. 540-548.

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