Imperial Statistical Office
The Imperial Statistical Office was a central statistical authority of the German Empire established on July 23, 1872 in place of the Central Bureau of the Customs Union .
According to the "Business Instructions for the Imperial Statistical Office" of June 23, 1872, its tasks were to collect, check, technically and scientifically process the material to be supplied for the Reich statistics on the basis of laws or by order of the Reich Chancellor , and by order of the Reich Chancellor to set up statistical evidence and to report on statistical questions in an expert manner.
At the head of this was a director who was subordinate to the Reich Office of the Interior .
His working group was initially limited to the three sub-areas of population statistics , statistics for agriculture and trade as well as statistics for traffic and communal income of the tax and customs administration and gradually extended to the areas of population, agriculture, trade, foreign trade, traffic and customs - and taxation, commodity prices, Reichstag elections , crime, bankruptcies, schooling for recruits, health insurance, poor affairs. In addition, a special department for workers 'statistics had been set up in 1902, which was supported by an advisory board and which replaced the commission for workers' statistics set up in 1892.
His publications were the "Statistics of the German Empire", since 1873; “Monthly Issues for Statistics of the German Empire”, 1884–1891, continued by “Quarterly Issues for Statistics of the German Empire”; "Monthly reports on foreign trade in the German customs area together with information on wholesale prices and the production of sugar", since 1892; "Statistical Yearbook for the German Empire", since 1880; and the "Reichsarbeitsblatt".
On November 30, 1918, the State Secretary of the Reich Economics Office , August Müller , decided: The Imperial Statistical Office will henceforth be called the Reich Statistical Office .
The seat of the office was the building erected from 1874 to 1876 by the architect Wilhelm Neumann on Lützowufer 6–8 (destroyed in World War II).
Authority management
Official title of director
- Karl Becker , from 1872 to 1891
- Hans von Scheel , from 1891 to 1902
Title President
- Leopold Wilhelmi , from 1902 to 1903
- Richard van der Borght , from 1904 to 1912
- Ernst Delbrück , from 1912 to 1923
Web links
- Scans of the statistical yearbooks for the German Empire (1881–1943)
References and individual references
- ^ Federal Statistical Office Wiesbaden (ed.): Population and Economy 1872–1972 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz, 1972, p. 15 .
- ^ Federal Statistical Office Wiesbaden (ed.): Population and Economy 1872–1972 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz, 1972, p. 16 .
- ↑ On the establishment of the “Commission for Workers Statistics” cf. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 , III. Department: Expansion and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890–1904) , Volume 3, Workers' Protection , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Darmstadt 2005, No. 72–74, No. 77–79.
- ^ Federal Statistical Office Wiesbaden (ed.): Population and Economy 1872–1972 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz, 1972, p. 17 .
